Support our non-partisan non-profit newsroom 💜 Donate now
COVID-19

Volunteers are making masks to help with COVID-19 shortages. Who will use them?

Blake Farmer Apr 3, 2020
HTML EMBED:
COPY
Oluwatosin Fagbuyi, a graduate student at Tennessee State University, has been helping keep the school’s 3D printers running, molding headbands as part of a face shield for medical workers. Blake Farmer/ WPLN
COVID-19

Volunteers are making masks to help with COVID-19 shortages. Who will use them?

Blake Farmer Apr 3, 2020
Oluwatosin Fagbuyi, a graduate student at Tennessee State University, has been helping keep the school’s 3D printers running, molding headbands as part of a face shield for medical workers. Blake Farmer/ WPLN
HTML EMBED:
COPY

Although college campuses are closed, some schools in Tennessee have kept 3D printers humming to make face shields for health workers in the absence of other protective gear. Volunteers around the country are also sewing face masks. Although these masks may not be hospital grade, they could help preserve surgical masks for those who really need them.

There’s a lot happening in the world.  Through it all, Marketplace is here for you. 

You rely on Marketplace to break down the world’s events and tell you how it affects you in a fact-based, approachable way. We rely on your financial support to keep making that possible. 

Your donation today powers the independent journalism that you rely on. For just $5/month, you can help sustain Marketplace so we can keep reporting on the things that matter to you.