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    Into the breach

    Mar 27, 2020 4 minutes
    BY CHARLOTTE ALTER AND W.J. HENNIGAN

    EVERYTHING CHANGED FOR ABDUL Rashid Dadabhoy on March 17. He heard that California’s Orange County was gearing up to ban public gatherings and impose restrictions on nonessential businesses like his T-shirt company, Bayside Apparel and Headwear, in order to stop the spread of coronavirus. But then Dadabhoy turned on CNN and saw doctors saying they didn’t have enough personal protective equipment to keep themselves safe while treating patients.

    “I have all these employees,” Dadabhoy recalls thinking to himself. “I’ve got to do something.” Within a day, the company had a face-mask prototype. Soon it was aiming to produce 100,000 masks per week. The masks are not yet medical-grade, but they’re

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