When the coronavirus pandemic escalated in late March, frontline facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and grocery stores across the nation began to experience shortages of personal ...

Transportation Security Administration officers are following CDC advice and staying home when they are not working at the airport, and a few of them are making good use of their time by keeping busy ...

Health care providers bracing for a flood of coronavirus cases are already worried about adequate supplies of necessities like face masks. Recently updated advice from the Centers for Disease Control ...

An Amherst pediatrician, concerned over the critical shortage of surgical masks now worn by many people to help slow the spread of COVID-19, has taken matters into her own hands. Dr. Martina Puzanov ...

Gert McMullin sewing masks (photo by Mike Smith, courtesy Bay Area Community Services) Gert McMullin has never been one to idle in times of crisis. When the HIV and AIDS pandemic first overtook the ...

When Rancho Cordova math teacher Estelle Gray began teaching an after-school sewing club on a whim two years ago, she never imagined her students would be sewing masks for healthcare providers in the ...

STERLING - Two longtime Sterling residents, Patrick O’Connor and Denise Sargent, have each been diligently sewing homemade masks for those in need along with legions of other big-hearted people in the ...

Kristina Wong is an actress and comedian known for her one-women shows. But she traded the stage for a sewing machine and formed a team of volunteers to make masks during the coronavirus pandemic. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Portland sewing master has turned her hobby into a booming business to fulfill a need for affordable-yet-stylish face masks. Sew Happiness’ Trudy Shurts has made all kinds of ...

Prototypes of the masks that Nebraska Masks for Medicine made for Methodist Health System personnel. A local mask-making group is seeking the public’s help sewing the masks needed for Omaha schools to ...