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Navy, Army Partner for 3D Printing of COVID-19 Test Swabs

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland, finalized a memorandum of agreement to support the production and delivery of 3D-printed nasopharyngeal test swabs needed to support diagnostic testing for COVID-19. Swab Packages Chemical engineer Alex Barbery packages newly 3D-printed nasal swabs into a medical bag at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, May 13, 2020. The shipyard now has the equipment in place to produce 10,000 nasal swabs per day, with the ability for scaling up to meet an even larger demand should the need arise. SHARE IMAGE: var addthis_config = { data_use_flash: false, data_use_co...