N95 masks have been hard to come by throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, but the shortage became a big opportunity for small businesses that feared facing bankruptcy during the economic downturn. Cheddar's Megan Pratz profiled one business in Maryland that seized the opportunity to make more masks.
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