Necessity is the mother of invention, and in no time is invention more necessary than during a global pandemic.

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Starting with the drive-through testing clinics pioneered overseas that spread to the United States (big shout-out to the University of Washington for putting step-by-step instructions for how to start your own drive-through clinic on their COVID-19 resource site , to the “telephone booth” testing facilities in South Korea, there has never been a more critical time to innovate.

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This morning, I awoke to a story about a Northern Italian hospital that ran out of a valve needed for their low-flow oxygen masks and reached out to local labs for help. The response? Cristian Fracassi, founder and CEO of a local 3D printing company, was able to redesign and produce the needed valve using a 3D printer in a matter of hours. The next story I […]

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