Newburgh woman contracts COVID-19 after making thousands of masks for community
Newburgh woman contracts COVID-19 after making thousands of masks for community By Jessica Costello | January 13, 2021 at 6:35 PM CST - Updated January 13 at 6:35 PM
NEWBURGH, Ind. (WFIE) - A Newburgh woman took to her sewing machine and made around 3,000 masks for the community since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, Bonnie McLeod is now fighting the virus herself.
What began as a simple idea to help turned into a way bigger project.
”She started doing masks when this all started because no one had masks,” Scott McLeod, Bonnie’s husband said. “And she said, ‘Well, what should we charge?’ and I said, ‘Don’t charge, just do donations.’ She taught my granddaughter how to help her make them and they were making them together in the front room here.”