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NHS staff are making improvised masks out of snorkels, buying kit from hardware stores and using school science goggles to protect themselves in anticipation of a rise in coronavirus cases, it has emerged.
A consultant anaesthetist working in south-east England reported buying 60 snorkels to adapt into respirator masks. “Various other places are doing the same,” the doctor told the Guardian. “One trust has ordered 500 and teamed up with companies who are (3D) printing the adapters.”
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This article was first featured at https://ift.tt/3aBpTz8 on April 1, 2020 at 01:02PM by Lucy Campbell (now) and Alexandra Topping (earlier)
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