"Over the weekend, the company designed face shields in conjunction with Verily (the Alphabet company behind the COVID-19 online screening website Project Baseline), 3D-printed prototypes of them, and sent them off to Stanford Hospital and Kaiser Permanente for testing. Simultaneously, Carbon’s designers started working on 3D-printed COVID-19 nasopharyngeal test swabs, which are also in short supply and among the reasons for the bottleneck in testing. DeSimone and Kullman are already sending the face shields out to hospitals, and by day’s end had received regulatory approval as a class 1 exempt device without having to file paperwork through the Food and Drug Administration’s new expedited approval process. They hope to be able to distribute the swabs soon, though they declined to specify an exact time frame."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/03/25/inside-a-silicon-valley-unicorns-urgent-dash-to-3d-print-face-shields-and-test-swabs-to-battle-covid-19/#2074287b4370
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2020/03/25/inside-a-silicon-valley-unicorns-urgent-dash-to-3d-print-face-shields-and-test-swabs-to-battle-covid-19/#2074287b4370