In response to the shortage of personal protective equipment many New York area hospitals are facing now that the coronavirus is debilitating more and more people, Dr. Pierre Elias, a Cardiology Fellow at Columbia University, reached out to Madiha Choksi, a Research and Learning Technologies Librarian at Columbia who specializes in 3-D printing, to ask if it’d be possible to use Columbia’s resources to 3-D print face-shields to protect hospital workers.
This week, Choski met with Tangible Creative, a 3D printing services company in New Jersey, to collaborate on building many more face-shields to meet the growing demand, as hospitals become more crowded, and more workers are endangered.