Wikimedia Commons/Pooja Jadhav
Wikimedia Commons/Pooja Jadhav
John Deere is joining the forces to help make face shields as a protection method amid COVID-19, according to KCCI.
The company is currently working to create thousands of face shields for essential workers who are going head-to-head with the coronavirus. The plan is to first produce 25,000 shields, but John Deere has the capacity to make 200,000 for several neighborhoods in Central Iowa.
The company has also partnered with Safeguard Iowa and Polk County Emergency Management to make sure that the face shields are prioritized for workers at nursing homes, fire departments and hospitals before being distributed elsewhere.
A.J. Mumm, the Director of Polk County Emergency Management, said that fortunately donations have been rolling in to help fund the high-volume production.
"The donations have been so important for us to moderate the peaks and valleys of the other supply chains, and so making sure that we fill those valleys where we have a lot of demand and not a whole lot of supply, these donations have filled that supply,” he told KCCI.
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