How To Make A Face Mask For Hospitals And Medical Centers

How to Make a Face Mask for Hospitals and Medical Centers

Hospitals and medical centers across the country are asking sewers to make face masks to protect out health workers. You can google “how to sew face masks for hospitals” to find out where fabric masks are being requested.

Stillwater Medical Center is asking sewers to follow the face mask pattern from buttoncounter.com here.

From Deaconess Health System:

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Citing shortages, Deaconess Health System, including Henderson’s Methodist Health, has asked the public to sew face masks for staff fighting coronavirus.

“This does follow CDC protocols that you can find on their website that if all other supplies are not available, that handmade masks that meet certain criteria are acceptable,” Deaconess spokeswoman Becca Scott said.

The release with the video, pattern and instructions was posted to the Deaconess Facebook page Thursday morning and is available at www.deaconess.com/masks. A PDF of the pattern is available here and embedded at the bottom of this article.  

Deaconess has “a sample video” about how to make the masks, which Scott said will be sterilized when they come in.

From Forbes here:

Additional Resources for Open Source or Volunteer COVID-19 Projects:

One of my favorite how-to sites is Instructables. The DIY Cloth Face Mask has almost 100,000 views. It is a step-by-step instruction for those who need it. Kudos to ashevillejm.

In 2006, CDC released a Simple Respiratory Mask design using heavyweight t-shirts in its Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. More of an academic post, but some ideas in it.

A Facebook group was formed last week: Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies. It is worth a visit — in just a few short days there are 20,000-plus members and volunteers.

If you are looking for some research and street-level testing of various materials for DIY mask-making, this post from Smart Air Filters is exceptional: What Are The Best Materials for Making DIY Masks? It also includes a few great links at the end of it.

Lmao my sister and I really just spent an hour talking politics with each other at midnight

(The rest of our family doesn’t share the same views as us so we just raved and hyped each other up in the kitchen from 11:40 p.m. to 12:50 a.m)

EVERYONE DESERVES RIGHTS UNTIL THEY ABUSE THOSE RIGHTS TO HURT OTHER LIVING THINGS

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

Imma rant real fast

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Like, the design quality and detail (starting with Virgil’s room and going all the way to the absolutely epic graphics of the new episode). The outfits especially look fantastic all the time. Deceit and Remus have beautiful makeup and costume design (I especially love the half snake face and Remus’ mustache).

The characterization he puts into the characters (especially in the new episode). The depth and complete complexity of the characters just adds a whole new level of amazing into the show. Like, I’ve seen TV shows and movies with flat characters and this YouTube series just does it So Much Better. It’s so good, in fact, that it’s easy to forget that the whole thing is a one man show. The character development throughout the show especially. Like, Tony Stark level character development (no MCU Steve character development here).

We also can’t forget the themes, either. Thomas Sanders tackles important topics every episode. Accepting Anxiety? Dealing with Intrusive Thoughts? Selfishness vs. Selflessness? Iconic. Outstanding. Handled absolutely perfectly. The new episode especially talks about something that so many people need to hear.

All of this!! And all of the effort it takes!! It helps so many people and it’s so incredible and it’s just. Thomas Sanders. Talking to himself.

In conclusion, Sanders Sides is beautiful (10/10, big recommend) and Thomas Sanders and his friends are iconic. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.