Ellen DeGeneres shows viewers how to make homemade masks while her wife Portia De Rossi opens up about efforts to make PPE for healthcare workers amid outbreak of coronavirus
- Portia has divert her art company’s resources toward those in need
- Company is in collaboration producing face masks with their equipment
- Portia said she was ‘super proud’ to be able to help in the efforts to fight the pandemic
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Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi are doing their part to combat coronavirus.
Ellen, 62, demonstrated how to make face masks from scratch, as a growing number of places are requiring people to wear them.
She and Portia, 47, chat on Tuesday’s episode of Ellen about how Portia’s refocused the efforts of her company General Public, which reproduces art utilizing 3D technology, toward developing personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers
Helpful: Ellen DeGeneres, 62, demonstrates how to make face masks from scratch, as a growing number of places are requiring people to wear them, on Tuesday’s Ellen
‘Like all other non-essential business I was forced to shut down a few weeks back,’ Portia said. ‘We have a lot of equipment in our factory so I thought maybe something could come in handy.’
Portia said that with the turn in business, she partnered with the digital cutter MultiCam to produce face shields at a critical time when healthcare workers face equipment shortages amid the medical crisis of the pandemic.
‘We are now making for hospital workers that will be distributed around Southern California hospitals,’ she said. ‘We’re slated to make about 2,100 tomorrow but we can make in the tens of thousands, that’s what they do.’
Ellen noted that workers typically need about a mask a day to protect themselves from harmful germs.’
Giving back: She and Portia, 47, chat on Tuesday’s episode of Ellen about how Portia’s refocused the efforts of her company General Public, which reproduces art utilizing 3D technology, toward developing personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers
Kind soul: Portia said she was ‘super proud’ to be able to divert her resources toward those in need
Portia said she was ‘super proud’ to be able to divert her resources toward those in need.
‘It’s great to have a business and make art, but this is really fantastic,’ Portia said.
Ellen said that the equipment was earmarked for medical facilities including Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.
In another segment, While massive impact of the virus has shut down virtually all Hollywood productions earlier this month, Ellen has been able to produce remote episodes of her talk show at her Los Angeles home with de Rossi.
Fame: Ellen has remained in the headlines amid a number of recent incidents, as last week, she was panned after comparing quarantining in her opulent home to being imprisoned
Improving: Portia has honed her skills as a chef amid the lockdown
Ellen has remained in the headlines amid a number of recent incidents, as last week, she was panned after comparing quarantining in her opulent home to being imprisoned.
In March, the comic came under fire on social media from former associates after comedian Kevin T. Porter urged social media users to share ‘the most insane stories [they’ve] heard’ about the talk show host and the way she treats others.
As of Monday, the death total for COVID-19 was at 23,459 people in the U.S., The COVID Tracking Project reported, with 578,146 total positive diagnoses. On a global level, 119,666 people have died amid 119,666 positive diagnoses worldwide, Johns Hopkins University reported.