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When men defended our nation during WWII, the women manned factories making munitions, building ships and plane, and stepped up to support the war effort. Today, women (and men) are stepping up their support for our healthcare professionals who are fighting a war with the coronavirus, by making surgical masks that can be used over the N95 masks to add more protection. We have a huge deficit of N95 and surgical masks that our frontline workers need.<\/p>\n
I have designed a 4-layer mask that houses a filter that can be washed and reused. Without leaving my house, I found enough cotton fabric, elastic, and wire to make dozens of masks. My friend Mario brought me the filters when he heard I was sewing masks so I wouldn\u2019t have to leave the house. Rob, my husband, also joined me in cutting fabric and picking up more fabric. I love the support we\u2019re getting as we ramp up our efforts to provide the backup masks that hospital staff definitely needs.<\/p>\n
If you have a sewing machine and you\u2019d like to help, I\u2019ve made a YouTube video to show exactly how to make these masks. They\u2019re easy to make and it\u2019s rewarding to know that doctors, nurses, paramedics, and all frontline workers will be safer. Here\u2019s the link to my YouTube video<\/a> and a link to the pattern<\/a>.<\/p>\n Our healthcare professionals feel demoralized when they don\u2019t have the PPEs they need and they feel like nobody cares. Giving gifts of homemade masks will help build morale while they face the most physically and psychologically challenging times of their careers. Please send these masks to your local Emergency Departments. Check to make sure they\u2019re accepting homemade masks. You can also send masks directly to me, and I\u2019ll distribute them to hospitals that need them. This is who we are \u2013 and thank you for your support!<\/p>\n The post Make masks for healthcare workers<\/a> appeared first on Merit Educational Consultants<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When men defended our nation during WWII, the women manned factories making munitions, building ships and plane, and stepped up to support the war effort. Today, women (and men) are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}