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3D printing companies hope to help produce tens of millions of swabs for the American public. It’s a race against time.
The country needs tens of millions of nasal swabs if it’s going to test enough people for COVID-19 to safely reopen the economy, but swabs are in short supply. A consortium of academics, medical workers, and manufacturers have joined forces to relieve the bottleneck through 3D printing.
This article was first featured at https://ift.tt/2Y1FPqZ on April 24, 2020 at 09:15AM by Evan Nicole Brown
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