Hartford Courant: A Connecticut doctor turns to 3D printers to make face masks as need grows amid coronavirus crisis
Dr. Chris Wiles, a first-year anesthesiology resident at Hartford and St. Francis hospitals and UConn Health, has turned to his 3D printing hobby to come up with a face mask health care workers can use should N95 masks run out.
CT Mirror: At-home mask-makers helping meet the need statewide
Volunteers for MakeHaven, a New Haven maker space, have sewn 402 face masks for nonprofits and the Yale New Haven Hospital. Regina Bohn has made almost half of them.
NBC Connecticut: CT-Based Prosthetics, Halloween Mask Companies Work Together on PPE Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Two Portland, Connecticut companies are working together to help design personal protective equipment to healthcare workers during a shortage due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
CT Post: CT businesses receive nearly 1,300 federal loans in 3 days
In three days, Connecticut small businesses applied and were approved for nearly 1,300 new federal loans as the coronavirus forces widespread business closures.
CT Post: Xerox, startup team to mass-produce ventilators
The Norwalk-based printer giant has enlisted in a rapidly swelling army of business volunteers helping to funnel critical supplies to hospitals as Connecticut, New York and other hot pockets brace for a caseload peak this week and next.
CT Post: Aberdeen seamstress switches from bears to masks
In Aberdeen, those with sewing skills have taken to making cloth masks in order to help increase the longevity of personal protective equipment used by health care workers.
WNPR: Connecticut Distillers Turn To Hand Sanitizer As Shortages Continue
Some of Connecticut’s small craft distilleries have provided one of those tales, ending production of spirits like gin and vodka and turning instead to making 140 proof alcohol hand sanitizer.
NBC Connecticut: Hartford Distillery Creating Hand Sanitizer for First Responders
Throughout the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, people are coming together to give back. In Hartford, the owner of a distillery is using her business to make something virtually impossible to find, but very much needed – hand sanitizer.
Fox 61: Stefanowski pipeline to face masks helping those on front
Partisan politics can certainly get nasty, but during this coronavirus pandemic, there’s been far more bipartisanship. One example: how highly coveted face masks are being the procured by Ken Group for those on the front lines in Connecticut.
WTNH: ‘Masks for Heroes’ donates nearly 500K face masks throughout state to those on front lines
Since March 30, Masks for Heroes has sourced, bought and distributed nearly 500,000 protective masks for hospital workers, police, fire, nursing home and other caretakers in 125 towns across Connecticut.
NBC Connecticut: CT Team Creates Device To Increase Ventilator Capacity
Dyer owns Interpro 3D Printing in Deep River. He reached out to a group of doctors to see if there was a way that he could 3D print a device to enhance ventilator capacity.
WTNH: Small business owners fear they’ll go under because of coronavirus pandemic, hope from ‘Paycheck Protection Program’
Small businesses are being crushed by the coronavirus, but there is help in the form of the “Paycheck Protection Program” from the federal government.