This is just the sort of innovative spirit we need right now.
Click2Houston reports:
Rice University develops low-cost ventilators to help fight coronavirusRice University has created a new and inexpensive tool that could soon be available and on the front-lines in the fight against coronavirus.”We’ve created a low-cost ventilator solution that we hope to release to the world for people,” professor Matthew Wettergreen said.The prototype is already in the works at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen at Rice University, as part of a senior design course project. The ventilators will cost less than $300 to develop.However, the efforts to get the product out to the public have quick ramped up over the last week as the world faced a medical supply shortage because of the coronavirus pandemic.”The inexpensive part of that makes it a very good thing compared to your multi-thousand dollar ventilators or some of the other ones you’ve seen on the internet,” said Danny Blacker, an engineering design supervisor at Rice University.With much-needed medical equipment running out for medical staff, this device could be a game-changer, Rice University executive director Amy Kavalewitz said.”What our device could possibly do is free up larger ventilators for more critical patients,” she said.
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