The Masks Now Coalition is a grassroots movement of volunteers and their groups, led by 19 organizers directing more than 1,000 volunteers, who banded together in response to the urgent national shortage in personal protective equipment (PPE) brought on by the novel coronavirus outbreak. The Masks Now Coalition has volunteers in every state, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico ready to answer the call from over 125 hospitals in 28 states which have made public appeals for home sewn masks that meet the CDC's emergency guidelines because they are facing a shortage or they expect to soon.
The Masks Now Coalition matches the hospital requests to the volunteers in their local areas. The coalition has also created a standard design for distributed production of three-layer homemade masks. The coalition's three-layer masks are not made for children.
Readers can text "masks" to 50409 for more information. Readers may also visit http://www.masksnow.org for information about volunteering and about receiving donations for a facility.
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