News
 |
Nicholas Altman, the son of KFF President Jurate Kazickas and Evercore Chairman Roger Altman, a metal and wood fabricator in Brooklyn, has been making plastic shields for health workers during the COVID-19 virus crisis.
Set up in the garage of his family’s house outside of New York City, Nick makes the face shields from commodity materials using hand tools. He and his friends have been able to produce 100 shields a day, when they can get materials. His first batch was delivered to New York hospitals and a local volunteer ambulance corps.
“I’m very proud of Nick’s ingenuity and generosity,” said Jurate. “He’s using his talents as an artist to help those first line hospital workers who are so short of supplies,” she added.
Nick, meanwhile, was dumbfounded to think that “in a country with among the highest per capita productivity the world has ever seen’ it was he, a self-described “Brooklyn art nerd dilettante who bolted to his parents' country house when the city’s outbreak started looking bad” who would be providing personal protective equipment (PPE) where needed.
“I’m furious, and I don’t understand why more people aren’t,” said Nick. “This is the result of weeks of indecision following years of unconscionable myopia.”
He urged anyone with PPE or an interest in making some to go to the web site: https://masksfordocs.com/
Photo above: Rebecca Rand wearing one of Nick Altman's face shields for health workers
Photo credit: Nicholas Altman
|
|
