Invention Roundup: Inventors Rally in Response to a Health Crisis

New products and devices address COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is igniting a flurry of invention to address urgent issues of prevention and detection and treatment.

From multiple efforts to address the need for ventilators to open-source face shields to drones that can detect potential respiratory infection, university researchers, engineers and private entrepreneurs have stepped up with innovative solutions to the current health crisis.

Visit our Medium publication, Invention Notebook, to read a roundup of just a few of these inventions.