This is the result when a Los Angeles fashion designer who is also a nurse gets an idea.
It also has a nose wire to have it adjust to the size of your nose and to squeeze down.
Before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidelines and started recommending people wear cloth face masks,
Sonya Smith Chang had been researching designing and making these cloth face masks from the surplus fabric of her clothing company because she heard healthcare workers needed them.
索尼娅.史密斯.张-直在研究用她服装公司的剩余布料设计和制作这些布口罩,因为听说医护人员需要口罩。
She posted her creations on social media and the response has been overwhelming.
All of a sudden overnight, we got hundreds of not only requests from healthcare professionals but also from individuals who may have underlying conditions or just want to shop or walk outside. .
一夜之间,我们收到了数以百计的请求,有医疗保健专业人员,也有那些可能有潜在疾病的人,或者只是想购物或出去走走的人。
For every mask she sells one is donated to a healthcare worker or First Responder.
Smith Chang has already shipped handreds of masks to those working in healthcare across the country.
According to e-commerce website Etsy which sells handmade items, a face mask has been the most frequently searched item in the last two weeks.
The CDC advises people to wear cloth face coverings in public because studies show many people with coronavirus don't have symptoms but can still pass the virus onto others.
研究表明,许多冠状病毒携带者没有症状,但仍然可以将病毒传染给他人。因此,美国疾病控制与预防中心建议人们在公共场合戴上布口罩。
So you're not really trying to prevent somebody from infecting you, you're trying to prevent infecting other people.
Terrassa Bonnie oversees the infection control program at the eight hospitals at Houston Methodist,he cautions people wearing a face mask still need to follow the six feet distancing rule and make sure they don't touch the mask when they re wearing it.
泰拿沙.邦妮负责休斯顿卫理公会八家医院的感染控制项目,他提醒戴口罩的人仍需遵守六英尺距离的规定,并确保戴口罩时不要摸口罩。
Humans are not used to wearing masks so if they do not practice good hand hygiene,they actually contaminate the mask if they keep adjusting it.
人们不习惯戴口罩。所以,如果不保持良好的手部卫生,且不断调整口罩,实际上会弄脏口罩。
The CDC is asking the public to wear cloth masks and reserve surgical masks and N95 respirators for healthcare workers in the meantime.
Tank Smith and her team will continue to sew sell and donate face masks to those who need them.