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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