A 3D-printer company in Italy has designed and printed 100 life-saving respirator valves in 24 hours for a hospital that had run out of them...The valve connects patients in intensive care to breathing machines.
The hospital, in Brescia, had 250 coronavirus patients in intensive care and the valves are designed to be used for a maximum of eight hours at a time...The 3D-printed version cost less than €1 (90p) each to produce and the prototype took three hours to design.
— BBC
Cristian Fracassi, a chief executive at Isinnova, an independent research institute in Italy, and mechanical engineer Alessandro Romaioli teamed up to aid the hospitals need for new valves. Partnering with Lonati, another local 3D-printing company, the group began printing to meet the hospital's demand, BBC reports.
The Verge initially reported that the medical company that manufactures the valves threatened to sue the group who printed the valves, but later corrected the error, clarifying that the manufacturer could not provide the 3D-printing group with files regarding the valve's production due to regulations. The volunteers printed the valves for about $1 while the manufacturer sells them for about $11,000.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
There is no stakes higher than human lives. I hope they continue printing them, the people and the court will have their backs.
Please, read again the link you are using as source “the Verge” ... they changed the article!!
There is no threat of being sued!
There is no need of fake news in a period where everyone needs support, right now Italy and its people.
I would appreciate if you send an errata corrige with your newsletter.
Thanks.
Thanks for the note. The article has been updated.
Please, think again the choice of words you are using as source “the Trump” ... !!
There is no such thing as fake news!
There is a need of corrections in an article where the writer makes mistakes, and using the phrase Fake News to attack them plays into the hands of a wanna be fascist demagogue..
I would appreciate if you update your lexicon and stop parroting people dumber than a box of rocks.
Thanks.
thanks from Italy
fyi
https://www.isinnova.it/easy-c...
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