MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Some Skagit County manufacturers are working to produce protective equipment for healthcare workers responding to COVID-19.
Chinook Enterprises and Eddyline Kayaks have switched from manufacturing their usual products to making protective face shields, which are being purchased and distributed by the Skagit Rotary Club to local nursing homes and healthcare facilities.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports Eddyline Kayaks made the first face shield last week and assembled the first 500 of what will be its total run of 1,000.
Chinook Enterprises will produce local face shields for the foreseeable future, ramping up production to eventually provide them to those in need outside of Skagit County.