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MAY 22, 2020

Anesthesia Residents’ ‘Crazy Idea’ Helps Ship PPE Masks

By Sharon Waters
This article was cross-posted from Anesthesiology News

While juggling hospital rounds and COVID-19 quarantines, anesthesia residents Jacqueline Boehme and Alexander Stone launched MasksOn.org, which adapts snorkeling gear into emergency masks for medical providers.

In four weeks, the residents at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, transformed the project from an idea into actual shipments of 10,000 masks to over 1000 institutions battling the coronavirus.

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