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This essentially provides CPAP therapy. CPAP can be helpful but it is not a direct replacement for ventilation/intubation.

Initial info from the intensivists (ICU docs) from Kirkland Washington suggest that time should not be wasted with CPAP or BiPAP. These measures only postpone the inevitable in patients with COVID-19.

Also a good percent of medical personnel were becoming infected from the Italian data with SARS-CoV2 (10-15%). Measures like BiPAP or CPAP do can exposure others in the room, especially with the rapid progression of this disease and the likely need to intubate the patients and ventilate them.

That being said this is a great accomplishment and the variety of sizes these masks come in would be helpful especially in the pediatric population. I now have to fire up my 3D printer.