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3D printing community steps up to help with PPE shortage

3D printing community steps up to help with PPE shortage

Written by David

April 1, 2020

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 Oregon Governor Kate Brown says her biggest concern right now is the shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurses and doctors.

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“We’re just getting stories about how they’re being told to reuse everything or someone told me yesterday that someone, their boss in the hospital, told them to share their masks even though some of the nurses have tested positive and they’re still having to come into work,” explained Shey Benner, who runs a cookie cutter business called SheyB Designs and decided to help with the shortage.

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While supplies are low, there is no shortage of stories like the one Shey Benner heard. Washington State University Student Connor Weller heard a similar one. “I found another person in some other group that was saying they’re in the Portland area and that his wife desperately needs personal protective equipment,” Weller explained. “Her group in the ICU […]

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