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Ford partners with 3M, GE to make respirators, ventilators and face shields
- benjohnson 7y agoHave a 3D printer? Have weird office supplies? Search for the 3D models for the plastic 8.5 x 11 (or A4) plastic used for transparencies, report covers et al. Our local hospital here in the Seattle area is taking all that we can make.
- Waterluvian 7y agoTo add context. That supplies the plastic screen. The printer is used to print the headband and support frame.
- tootie 7y agoI'd imagine a PLA-printed headband would be very uncomfortable.
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoIndeed. But we recommend printing medical PPE out of PETG instead, due to its imperviousness to alcohol and bleach (for cleansing). twitter @masksfordocs And yes, the wounds people face with even professional PPE are harsh. These medical first responders are wearing it 16h days..
- burfog 7y agoThe powered respirators can be very comfortable. They don't need a tight seal against the skin, so they don't have that to cause injury. The forced air leaks out around a loose seal, preventing contamination. The most comfortable design is probably a full head covering, with a loose stretchy collar fitted around the person's neck. That could even be porous fabric. An excellent design would use a semi-rigid clear plastic helmet (like the plastic of a 2-liter soda bottle) with a Spandex neck collar. Another design is just a clear plastic bag.
- ck2 7y agoWell, I guess we'll be ready for the second wave a couple weeks after Easter. Actually maybe not, isn't that going to take them months to produce? Do you see an ETA in there? I can't find one. (I mean the ventilators)
- Dahoon 7y agoI see Big Business PR is working overtime. Well, somebody gotta make money on misery I guess.
- wikibob 7y agoNote: This is for portable battery powered respirators for healthcare workers to breath filtered air. NOT for Ventilators used to keep patients alive.
- tootie 7y agoYeah, they mention ventilators a few times, but it seems they are talking only about respirators (ie protective N95 masks). Gov Cuomo just said today he has a projected shortfall of 30,000 ventilators and they aren't available anywhere. The FEMA stockpile is 20,000 of which they have been promised 400. Ford and GM can score some PR and help medical workers by producing respirators, but we could be facing hundreds or thousands of excess deaths unless the DPA is invoked to produce ventilators and needs to happen a month ago.
- madengr 7y agoSo Cumo wants all 20,000 ventilators for NYC, and I suppose the rest of the country can just fuck-off? Considering NYC has about 8M population, that 400 is just about the proper allocation.
- anoncareer0212 7y agoWell, there's a fourth dimension, time, and the number of _______ will vary over time in each geo______
- haltingproblem 7y agoI understand the stress we are all under but there is really no need for that language. If you heard his press conference he reiterated that NYC is just ahead of the nation and what is happening in NYC will repeat in the rest of the nation and he will ensure that the respirators are sent on to other parts of the nation once the peak passes in NYC. "The governor also directly addressed the rest of the nation. He said he would not hold onto the ventilators in New York once the need passes and he pleaded for unity for amid a national crisis." Source: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/24/cuomo-to-trump-administration-you-pick-the-26k-people-who-are-going-to-die-1268833 https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/0...
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoIf you'd like to help with the PPE efforts going to doctors, nurses, and other frontline staff, please come to @masksfordocs Slack invite: https://join.slack.com/t/masksfordocs/shared_invite/zt-cyer3hl0-s8yQkJtn6PRFuPQX5GARwg https://join.slack.com/t/masksfordocs/shared_invite/zt-cyer3... (dang, if you see this, I kindly request you sticky or pin this.)
- Glench 7y agoNow imagine if, after this emergency is over, industries retooled like this to decarbonize.