December COVID-19 Inventor Showcase
Seminars & Lectures
Accelerated Mass Manufacturing of NP Swabs
We are currently in the middle of a third surge of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.A. with tens of thousands of new cases reported daily nationwide. Around the world, close to 40.5 million people have contracted COVID-19 and more than 1.1 million have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’s most recent data. CDC projects up to 282,000 US COVID-19 deaths by December 5. Surprisingly, one of the biggest bottlenecks in the soaring demand for diagnoses has neither involved complex machines to detect genetic material nor molecular biology. It’s been a shortage of nasopharyngeal swabs for collecting samples. Join us on December 15th to learn how an Ohio State coalition of university scientists, engineers and manufacturers came together to share resources and expertise to combat this shortage in the state of Ohio. The 3D printed nasal pharyngeal swabs are meeting the dire demand for testing in Ohio.
Date: December 15, 2020, Tuesday, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM