A Calgary man is supplying over 20,000 face masks to help protect the city’s vulnerable populations from the spread of COVID-19.
It’s hard for people living at Calgary homeless shelters to maintain social distancing, and with at the first COVID-19 cases at the Drop in Centre and at the Salvation Army’s Centre of Hope earlier this week, masks are even more critical. “We have had a lot of clients before we started continuously masking who would ask for masks and we didn’t have enough to provide,” said Samantha Lowe, health and wellness manager at the Mustard Seed.
That’s where the work of Chris Healey comes in. Healey, who has a PhD in quantum nanoscience, certainly isn’t a disease specialist but the University of Calgary graduate runs a