APOPKA, Fla. – A couple of friends in Apopka are making the best out of their quarantine time by making special clips for people to secure their face masks.
The S-shaped hooks are made with Jenny Andry’s laser-cutting machine. Since she began her mission to give back to the community, she’s made 8,000 of the acrylic accessories being used by healthcare workers in Central Florida hospitals, medical centers in Georgia, Wisconsin and a hospital in New York. "They do not have to put the strap around their ears at all," Jenny said, "I heard that everybody was-- all the healthcare professionals were getting sore ears from wearing their masks for 12 hours a day." The sore ears can occur due to the elastic bands on surgical masks that go around