Used to dressing fictional characters, these theater workers are now creating personal protective equipment for coronavirus 'superheroes'
“They told me, ‘Just wear whatever you’ve got.’ But I didn’t have any [scrubs]. When you leave hospitals nowadays, you have to give them back, and if you don’t, you get fined,” she said.
“You need to be wearing personal protective equipment over the top, so it’s boiling hot. And you need stuff that can come home and be washed at 60 degrees to kill the infection.” The health service’s chronic lack of equipment extends beyond clothing, however. PPE is in desperately short supply in British hospitals — especially full-face visors.
“I’d heard stories of nurses here in the U.K. having to wear freezer bags over their heads with breathing holes poked in them,” Kesteren, who is based in Wales, said.
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