'We Can Do This': How a Law Student is Using 3D Printers to Help Health Care Workers
South Texas College of Law Houston student Jessica Livsey and her family have manufactured 1,400 ear guards and donated them for free to health care workers in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, California, and more locations.
April 28, 2020 at 01:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Texas Lawyer
Staying home like all of us, one Houston law student has found a way to make health care workers more comfortable while teaching her children about serving others.
Jessica Livsey, a rising third-year law student at South Texas College of Law Houston, has been working with her fiance and two children, who are 6 and 8 years old, to use the family's 3D printers to manufacture "ear guards" for health care workers.
The doctors and nurses who are treating COVID-19 patients suffer from ear pain from the elastic straps on their face masks. An ear guard goes on the back of the head and holds the elastic straps away from the ears.
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