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As healthcare workers have been left with personal protective equipment (PPE) in short supply due to the coronavirus pandemic, companies and individuals—from Matouk to Apple—have stepped in to ...

Mililani resident Aki Shin, 37, took a voluntary furlough from Hawaiian Airlines earlier this month and has been spending some of her time sewing fabric face masks for her ohana and friends. Shin ...

Crafty people are stepping up to create homemade masks for health care workers facing shortages amid the coronavirus pandemic. Volunteers across the nation have formed sewing groups, where they share ...

If you’ve been following the spread of the novel coronavirus as it makes it way across the country, you’ve probably also heard about the growing concerns over shortages of protective face masks for ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kellie Boers sits at her sewing machine in the living room of her Portage home with her dog, Lucy, by her side. Boers has been working 12-hour days at her makeshift workstation, ...

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The folks in the Minnesota Opera's costume shop usually craft couture gowns with corsets, wondrous costumes in weighty fabrics. Works of art. "Now we're sewing rectangles to save lives," said Corinna ...

Starting Friday, San Diego County residents are required to wear masks in public, and volunteer organizations that have been fashioning and donating masks to medical facilities in need of personal ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Many healthcare workers are still desperate to get adequate masks to protect themselves. That's why "Operation We Can Sew It" hopes people will learn how to sew masks they can use for ...

Religious and lay Catholics live the call of faith as they help protect people from coronavirus. Hospital staff express their thanks for the hand-sewn masks provided by the Dominican sisters at the ...