The cathedral purchased them around 2006, during an earlier health scare. Most of the masks will now be donated.
Washington National Cathedral, 676 feet high and with nine chapels, is a big space to keep track of. But longtime head mason Joe Alonso recently remembered something pretty key tucked away on the building’s crypt level: surgical face masks.coronavirus
After checking with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the manufacturer, said cathedral spokesman Tony Franquiz, it was confirmed the masks were still safe to use. Wednesday, Dean Randolph Marshall Hollerith and other cathedral staff wheeled the boxes out to donate.Thirteen boxes holding 3,000 masks were delivered Wednesday to Georgetown University Hospital, and nine boxes holding 2,000 masks were delivered to Children’s National, Franquiz said.
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