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When the coronavirus caused much of San Francisco to go on lockdown in mid-March, many of the hotels that were already preparing for an extended stint of low occupancy levels offered close to 10,000 rooms to house patients, homeless individuals and others in need.
Irvine-based software firm Smudge Laboratories Inc. has a new focus to help hospitals workers during the COVID-19 crisis, using its 3D modeling technology to create interactive user manuals for ventilators.
“The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed,” was the headline of an alarming March 29 NY Times report, which, among other issues, noted how device giant Covidien in 2012 bought a “small California company” from Costa Mesa that had been hired to design that government fleet of life-saving respiratory machines, a product now very much in demand.
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