DRAPER, Utah – After hitting record lows in sales, a Utah company has found success after finding their snorkels could be converted to N95 masks. When outdoor adventure came to halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, outdoor retailer Wildhorn Outfitters in Draper got innovative. “In order to preserve the business and provide a path forward, …
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Local businesses in Massachusetts are pivoting resources, equipment and their core missions to contribute to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration recently started a new initiative and $10 million in funding to support manufacturers’ efforts to pivot production operations to produce personal protective equipment and other critical devices, such as ventilators, …
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We’ve made tremendous progress at MasksOn.org in the past seven days. We are transitioning from the prototyping phase of the project into full-scale production, and we’ve had several important milestones towards the scalable manufacture and distribution of thousands of MasksOn.org’s Reusable Mask Kits. These include: Developing a rigorous test suite mirroring the standard FDA and …
We’re excited to share some photos of our transition to full-scale production here at the MasksOn.org team! The new site is at Lightspeed Manufacturing in Haverhill, MA.
Groups are raising funds to send healthcare workers masks, gloves, and gowns. Donate here if you have the means. It’s incredibly overwhelming to decide where to focus our efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes, staying at home saves lives, but it’s impossible not to think about the healthcare workers who are being forced to interact …
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Hospitals need masks and ventilators. Small businesses need to change how they operate. If you’re versed in hardware engineering or web development, you can help. Engineers at Apple recently helped develop an adjustable face shield to protect healthcare workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. By the end of this week, Apple …
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When Sara Remsen found out that Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was about to run out of masks, the Gloucester resident used her skills in tech design to help. Remsen, who sits as the vice president of Vuforia Product Experience at a computer software company, and about 200 others in various fields are volunteering for the non-profit MasksOn. …
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From the team here at MasksOn and the heroic healthcare workers on the ground: Thank you SO much! Because of your support, we are just days away from getting thousands of masks into the hands of clinicians who need them desperately. We’ve been working day and night to make sure that our frontline healthcare workers …
Several members of the Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School community are doing their part to fight COVID-19 — from creating facemasks to helping a local hospital expand its capacity to care for coronavirus patients. “All of us are making sacrifices right now, but no one is sacrificing more than the medical providers and first …
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We’re thrilled to announce that the first major shipment of 20,000 Head brand snorkel masks has arrived at our production facilities near Boston, MA. Our volunteers are carefully inspecting the product, while our engineering team is hard at work producing adapters. Next, MasksOn.org volunteers will assemble prototypes and put them through a battery of safety, …
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Emergency Use face shield for medical purposes. Not FDA cleared or approved. Use only when FDA cleared PPE is unavailable.