Nordstrom is sewing more than 100,000 masks that will be sanitized before being distributed to healthcare workers across the country. Members of the Nordstrom alterations teams in Washington, Oregon, Texas and California will sew the masks and give them to Providence Health & Services, a non-profit health care system that operates hospitals in six states. While Nordstrom is joining efforts to combat the medical supply shortage, they are also urging others who want to help to work with their local health care services to produce masks. Across the country, health care workers on the frontlines of the escalating fight against the pandemic describe shortages of personal protective equipment, widely known as PPE.