At manufacturing plants in North Carolina, Mexico and Honduras, the machines are standing ready. The plants, which make gowns and other protective equipment that medical staff need to treat Ebola patients, have hired extra workers to make sure the machines can run all night. Some already are. "We are not at our maximum capacity yet," said Judson Boothe, the senior director of products supply for Halyard Health, a unit of Kimberly-Clark that operates the plants (it is soon to be spun off from its parent). "But we're getting closer every day," he said, adding that Halyard did hit its cap during the SARS outbreak.
