“I initially just wanted to make sure I had a barrier of protection for my children specifically my 11-year-old daughter who suffers from allergies.”
Victoria Fields wanted to take an extra precaution to protect her family from the coronavirus, so she created masks using air conditioning filters.
“I did hear in a report that COVID-19 affects children or adolescents, and even elderly, who are affected by asthma and allergies,” said Fields. “So I just thought if I got a HEPA filtration system and I just researched the highest grade, that I would be able to make handmade masks for them. Fields said that once she and her children began to wear the masks outside, they started to receive recognition from local police officers, who at the time had not been provided any medical masks – specifically protective, N95 masks.