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of healthcare workers in the NRV and help design a guidance document for “home-made” mask use. While Debbie Geiger, in her down-time, is “working diligently to fill requests from healthcare workers in the area for masks using materials that we either already had at home, were donated by others in the community or we personally purchased,” said Geiger. The mask makers average about 1,000 masks a week and 100 to 200 H600 masks. As of May 4, 2020, the group had donated close to 3,000 masks to local healthcare facilities personnel. Top: VCOM’s Dr. Eric Stanley (left) and Dr. Tiffany Carpenetti (second from left) donated masks to the Blacksburg Volunteer Rescue Squad. Center: VCOM-Virginia Dean Jan Willcox, DO (center) brought masks and other PPE to Alan Fabian, CEO (right) at LewisGale Montgomery Hospital in Blacksburg, Virginia. Bottom (left to right): At Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, Nurse Kathi Hall, Jan Willcox, DO and Bill Flattery, CEO.

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