Ford Expands Coronavirus Effort, Will Make Respirators With 3M in Michigan

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) said that it has designed a new powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) to protect health-care workers and first responders, with help from 3M (NYSE: MMM). 

The PAPR units are designed to provide wearers with filtered air in contaminated environments and are used by health-care workers in hospital wards treating COVID-19 patients. Respirators are different from ventilators, the hospital-grade machines used to help severely ill patients breathe. Both respirators and ventilators are in critically short supply.

Ford engineer Jennifer Herr-Rathke is shown wearing the PAPR that Ford developed in conjunction with 3M. Image source: Ford Motor Company. 

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