With Opening Day postponed, the company that makes the uniforms worn by Major League Baseball players, announced plans to use the fabric instead to manufacture at least 1 million masks and gowns to support health care workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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While Rubin considered how he could make it happen, St. Luke's Hospital in Bethlehem reached out to Fanatics late last week about the possibility of the company manufacturing masks. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Attorney General Josh Shapiro each contacted Rubin over the weekend and told Rubin the state was in"dire need" of more masks and gowns.
"We've got a million yards of fabric that we make these baseball uniforms from, what would you think if we take that fabric and make masks and gowns," Rubin told The Associated Press."He immediately said, 'Great. I want to do it immediately. The most important thing is we've got to help the heroes on the front line and baseball can help play a role in it.'"
The company is making Level 1 masks, used for low-risk, nonsurgical procedures that are for single-use only.
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