Michael Bednark's New York City business normally builds big custom installations for corporations. Last weekend, it designed a face shield for health care workers and shifted its entire workforce to mass-producing them. The city wants 120,000. Gothamist
has fielded more than 500 offers from different companies offering to help, as the city struggles to rapidly increase supplies of surgical masks, gowns, and ventilators to help care for a surge in patients sick with COVID-19.
The finished shields are then boxed and stacked up along walls. One worker, 32-year-old Ernesto Howard, was recently laid off from a music studio, when the state ordered all non-essential business to close. “It feels great we’re helping because it’s a tough situation and everyone just has to step up,” he said.Mike Barra, a 51-year-old Staten Island resident, said he was just furloughed from his job at Duggal Visuals, and wasn't sure what he'd do.
“I wondered to myself honestly, my family's home, my wife has asthma so I gotta be super careful. But I felt like I should be here,” said Barra. “It’s good to be doing things that help others who help.”
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