Like many across the nation, he watched as the pandemic lay siege to the practicalities of everyday life and wanted to help. The world as Matt Carney knew it was in flux.

Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, were in self-isolation. Tech giants in the Bay area urged employees to stay home. San Francisco called a moratorium on evictions. The state of New York declared a “containment zone” in New Rochelle, a city north of Manhattan. Travelers would not be permitted into the United States from Europe for 30 days. When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, reaction to the unbridled spread was raging: President Donald Trump hadn’t been tested yet, but had already invoked the Defense Protection Act to force General Motors to manufacture ventilators. Time constraints impede the OSR-M1 respirator’s probability of full certification and regulation.The designers use distributed production methods such as additive manufacturing to speed up time to market.The particulate filtering facepiece respirator, also known as the OSR-M1, rivals the industry’s gold-standard N95 respirator.A group of engineers collaborate to design and produce a respirator to help offset a shortage of personal protective equipment during the pandemic.COVID Vaccine Moves to the Front of the Supply Chain.Global Manufacturers Fine-Tune Strategies.Speed Bumps on the Road to Delivering COVID Vaccines.Manufacturers Were on Point in the Race to a Vaccine.Be sure to check out the other installments below: Editors Note: Over the course of this week, Machine Design will be sharing a series of articles addressing the development and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine-and the obstacles surmounted along the way.

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