South Dakota is part of the effort to produce more N95 masks.
N95s provide high-level protection from contaminants and are regulated by the federal government.
3M has quadrupled its domestic production of N95 masks since the start of the pandemic.
They are expanding a factory in South Dakota and hiring 300 workers.
The company now makes nearly 100 million masks in the U.S. a month.
(Information from Reuters, one of KELO.com News’ news services, was used in this report.)
