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NYC Taps Manufacturers to Make Gear, Test Kits by Thousands
- Firms create face shields, gowns in former garment hubs
- Mayor says Washington has failed, so ‘get out of the way’
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New York City has turned to its storied garment industry to shift from high fashion to mass manufacture of surgical gowns to protect medical workers treating coronavirus patients in hospitals.
The gowns are part of a move by the city to build up its manufacturing capacity to locally produce personal protective equipment and test kits by the tens of thousands per week, scaling up production enough to become self-sufficient, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.