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Apple to make millions of face shields for hospitals desperate for gear

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  1. DanBC
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    They haven't included any padding for the forehead? The design of the instructions and the video is both beautiful and very easy to understand. It's lovely to see some huge companies step up to...

    They haven't included any padding for the forehead?

    The design of the instructions and the video is both beautiful and very easy to understand.

    It's lovely to see some huge companies step up to give stuff away.

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  2. skybrian
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    From the article: [...] And here are the assembly instructions.

    From the article:

    At 100 to a box, the shields can be packed flat and assembled in just a few minutes. The first shipment has already been delivered to Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, where a pediatrician created a prototype of the shield a few weeks ago and approached Apple about stepping in to help.

    “They are right next door to us at Kaiser Santa Clara and we take care of them,” said the pediatrician, Kerstin Rosen, who has a background in engineering. “They are in fact our neighbors.”

    [...]

    Apple isn’t alone in building face shields. Maker Nexus, a Sunnyvale nonprofit, has rallied hundreds of volunteers to produce around 1,000 shields a day for the Santa Clara Valley Medical system and others. Rosen had also reached out to the nonprofit early on, but few can match the tech giant’s speed or reach.

    Other Silicon Valley companies have also stepped forward to ease the blow of the pandemic, from Bloom Energy refurbishing broken ventilators to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donating money to cover childcare and other expenses for health care workers.

    And here are the assembly instructions.