Low-tech solutions for the COVID-19 supply chain crisis
@article{Armani2020LowtechSF, title={Low-tech solutions for the COVID-19 supply chain crisis}, author={Andrea M. Armani and Darrell E Hurt and Darryl Hwang and Meghan Coakley McCarthy and Alexis Scholtz}, journal={Nature Reviews. Materials}, year={2020}, volume={5}, pages={403 - 406} }
A global effort is ongoing in the scientific community and in the maker movement, which focuses on creating devices and tinkering with them, to reverse-engineer commercial medical equipment and get it to healthcare workers. For these ‘low-tech’ solutions to have a real impact, it is important for them to coalesce around approved designs. A global effort is ongoing in the scientific community and in the maker movement, which focuses on creating devices and tinkering with them, to reverse…
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