Volunteers rally to produce homemade face masks for coronavirus medical workers
(WorldNews Health)

A Brea T-shirt factory was humming Tuesday morning as 150 workers labored at sewing machines or boxed up finished product for shipping. But AST Sportswear wasn´t making T-shirts, its usual ware. Instead, its workers were making face masks for health professionals dealing with the novel coronavirus. Company chief operating officer Abdul Rashid said he ordered his Brea factory to shift production from T-shirts to masks after seeing appeals for protective equipment on the news last week. `I said, `Well, I´ve got a factory. I have a lot of capacity. Let´s make some masks,´ ` Rashid recalled. Within days, the cavernous Imperial Boulevard factory had shipped 10,000 multi-layered, cloth face masks...