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Amid a Global Pandemic, Designers Aim To Reimagine PPE – The Wire Science
COVID-19 has led to a surge in demand for personal protective equipment. Inventors have responded – with mixed results.
A man wearing a protective mask pushes a shopping trolley inside a mall after it reopened following the COVID-19 outbreak, in Mumbai, August, 5, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas
In March, as Covid-19 cases spiked and supplies of N95 protective masks dwindled at the Bay Area hospital where her brother-in-law works, Megan Duong launched a local search for N95s. Along with her sister-in-law, Sabrina Paseman, Duong enlisted volunteers and tracked down 7,000 masks barely enough to cover the …
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