Coronavirus pandemic: Jacksonville quilt store delivers 200 masks to Brooks Rehabilitation

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — QUICK FACTS:

• Cinnamon’s Quilt Shoppe in Jacksonville is delivering 200 masks to Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
• The mother of one of the hospital’s physicians, Janet Wells, works at the quilt store. She researched Centers for Disease Control guidelines and a made a prototype.
• Wells asked for customers from the quilt store to help. She made kits for them to take home to make masks. Volunteers have been sharing that either they have a relative that works at Brooks or they were once a patient and want to help out.

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