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Tufts students find several miles of elastic cord to repair damaged N95 masks

By adamg on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 10:13am

WBUR reports the students jumped into action after Tufts Medical Center got a donation of 6,000 N95 masks that had easily snappable elastic straps. But first they had to find miles of elastic cord with which to replace the bad straps.

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By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 10:17am.

Was not diminished

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By berkleealum on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 11:10am.

that would be a major setback

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By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 11:37am.

I hear the triads are selling them now.

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By anon on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 12:37pm.

It's their seventh effort.

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By mg on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 3:38pm.

They put out the word to Boston's student community and within a matter of days, dozens of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University and Harvard University had come together to prototype a solution, source several miles of new elastic chord and set up an appropriately spaced, makeshift assembly line across a series of empty classrooms at the Tufts Dental School.

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By Sock_Puppet on Thu, 04/02/2020 - 4:22pm.

What's the interval?

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