Leo Epstein's fabric shop is woven into London's East End
“Hi, is that Epra Fabrics?” a woman on the other end inquired.
“Yes,” said Daniel Epstein, son of Leo Epstein, the octogenarian proprietor of the fabric wholesaler in London’s East End who was isolating at home. “How may I help?”
“I’m calling from the Scrub Hub. We’re a group of volunteer women sewing hospital scrubs for nurses across the UK. We’re desperate for fabric. What can you sell us?”
The first few months of Covid, hospitals in England were incinerating scrubs at the end of every day. The risk of infection, they felt, was too great to launder them. Even the clothes nurses arrived to work in — cheap, disposable-grade garments decent enough to travel to work with and suitable to provide care in — were discarded at the end of the day.
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