Inside days, Pat Tucker went from producing automotive components for Ford Motor to assembling clear face shields to help health-care staff in the course of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 55-year-old grandmother has been working 12-hour shifts day-after-day for practically two weeks to construct the much-needed medical provides at a Ford subsidiary facility in Plymouth, Michigan.

"I wish to assist finish this. I wish to be right here to observe my grandchildren develop up and graduate and get married, and I would like them to have the ability to develop up," she instructed CNBC Thursday night time. "I get pleasure from serving to folks."

Tucker, a member of United Auto Employees union, leaves her house at about 4:30 a.m. to get to the ability by 5:30 a.m. to start producing the shields. She usually works till 6:30 p.m. after which takes particular precautions of washing herself and her clothes earlier than...