ORLANDO, Fla. – In the fight against coronavirus, one of the biggest challenges around the country and in Florida is the need for personal protective equipment -- the masks, isolation gowns and gloves that health care workers need.
Erick Hawkins, the vice president of strategic management with Orlando Health, said their supply of PPE is “in the green.” “We continue to look at that on a daily basis,” Hawkins said. “We understand what we’re using on a daily basis, and then applying that to the projected patients that we think we’ll have coming our way.” Not wanting to rely on the traditional supply chain, Orlando Health has come up with innovative ways of getting it. "We have partnered with the University of Central Florida to 3-D print some