Warwick university is part of our community but do you know what are they doing in support of the covid -19 ?

9/4/2020

We are fortunate to have one of the best universities in the world on our doorstep but wasn't widely appreciated is the support they are giving at the moment.
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Their students, staff and specialist departments have been continuing their valuable work contributing to the national effort to combat the COVID-19 virus. Here are some of our latest efforts.

WMG researchers are helping a body of scientists, clinicians, academics and companies to develop an alternative model of ventilator. The new model, the ‘exovent’, is a cutting-edge reinvention of current ventilators and is non-invasive. This means that patients don’t need to have their windpipes intubated, so they don’t need to be sedated or paralysed.
Warwick Medical School researchers are using supplies from a campus laboratory to make more of the reagents (a substance or mixture for use in chemical analysis) required for COVID-19 testing, which have been facing some supply challenges. They will supply those reagents to UHCW’s Coventry Hospital site for testing on patients.
Engineers are 3D printing hundreds of PPE face shields for use by the NHS. Dr Simon Leigh, from the School of Engineering, is working with PhD researcher Elizabeth Bishop to produce the face shields using the 3D printing facilities in our Engineering laboratories. They’re mostly using a new face shield design devised by Elizabeth in her own PhD research that can be printed in just five minutes.
Warwick Conferences are welcoming NHS staff and our medical students helping in local hospitals, supplying them with bed and breakfast in their conference bedrooms to help them stay working at the frontline in the fight against the pandemic.
Physics researcher Dr Matthew Broome has put together a video on making a homemade full face visor from a plastic bottle.