AMES, IA — During a critical face mask shortage at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, home sewers responded by pulling out fabric stashes, threading their machines and getting to work. Recently ...

Since this story published on March 23, 2021, Sew Masks 4 Cincy founder Esther Kang now says it's time for the project to end. "After a lot of thought and reflection, we have decided it is time to ...

TRAVERSE CITY — An online army of fabric-focused volunteers spent much of 2020 sewing personal protective equipment for area medical workers and others. In particular, the Seamstresses for Safety ...

These days, face coverings are available for purchase just about everywhere goods are sold. But not so long ago, they were hard to come by. Local group South Salish Mighty Masks mobilized in March to ...

What began as a pandemic response in the spring has turned into Operation Mask Up Round Lake, a PPE mask making initiative by the Round Lake Area Public Library. At the end of March, the library’s ...

Marina Nichols doesn’t yet have her driver’s license nor her own car, but she’s combating the coronavirus pandemic armed with another piece of machinery: Her aunt’s hand-me-down sewing machine, which ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Following new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that everyone wear a non-medical, cloth face covering in public to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, ...

"It's something I felt like I could do for the community." With a severe shortage of masks, volunteers are offering a solution to health care workers on the front lines of the novel coronavirus ...

NORTHAMPTON — When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. last March, lockdowns left many without jobs, while public safety measures created a scramble for face masks to protect against virus ...

What began as an outbreak of serious illness caused by a novel coronavirus in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, quickly spread around the world and was declared a global pandemic by the World Health ...