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Shielding the Community: CSUN Creates, Donates Protective Gear for Health Care Workers
April 10
[Bingbing Li, CSUN assistant professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering, wears a face shield created in his lab. Li is using 3D printers to create more than 1,500 face shields for health care workers throughout Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Bingbing Li.]
In a show of unity and collaboration, CSUN departments across campus are working together to create potentially life-saving face shields for health care workers facing the surge of COVID-19 patients in Los Angeles.
Bingbing Li, assistant professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management at CSUN, has been working hard to create face shields for an intensive care unit for COVID-19 at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Echo Park. The unit, run by the UCLA pulmonary and critical care team, is preparing to accept COVID-19 patients from other hospitals. Li will also make face shields for Keck Medical Center of USC’s Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine (PCCSM) and Beverly Community Hospital. In total, he plans to make more than 1,500 face shields that will be donated to hospitals throughout Southern California.
Read the story in the CSUN Today.
