Mount Pleasant Magazine Documenting Covid-19

54 www.CoronavirusMag.com | www.ReadMPM.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com feature busin ss 50,000 masks per day. Fiat-Chrysler America is taking a two-pronged approach to the COVID-19 crisis. Expanding its coronavirus relief efforts, Fiat-Chrysler has delivered more than one million meals to charities providing food service to children. The company, well-known for its namesake vehicles as well as other marques including Jeep, Alfa-Romeo and Maserati, has begun manufacturing protective face masks which will be donated to police, EMT and firefighters, as well as to workers in hospitals and health-care clinics. Production is targeted at more than one million a month throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. In other businesses, many of them local, important and innovative steps are being taken to help us all during the coronavirus pandemic. Among those lowcountry heroes is aerospace giant Boeing in North Charleston. The company has offered one of its 787 Dreamliners to ferry medical supplies where needed and launched its efforts in early April with a much- needed delivery of PPE and other gear to New Hampshire. The company has also repurposed its 3-D printing capacity