OSE Principles of Collaborative Design for COVID

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Intro

OSE aims to uncover and facilitate different avenues for larger numbers of people (with free time right now) to get involved in producing solutions for COVID, by identifying tasks that many available people can do, while not requiring excessive training. There are many such activities under way, and as such OSE would like to facilitate execution on the highest priority items.

Priorities: halt of spread, with testing and selective isolation. This is reflected in this article - [1]

OSE believes that halt of spread must start with first caring for first responders: nurses, EMTs, firefighters, doctors, medical staff.

OSE Proposal

Joining or leading efforts for:

  1. Widespread availability of PAPRs for first responsders, then general public.
  2. Widespread access to testing, leading to proper and voluntary/enforced isolation decisions (depending on the situation). And allowing immune people to get back to normal lives.
  3. Widespread access to ventilators for when shit hits the fan

OSE Methods

  1. Develop designs for and produce PAPRs via distributed manufacturing using common, off-the-shelf parts. Including import substitution by building components that are at risk of being disrupted.
  2. Develop designs for and produce ventilators via distributed manufacturing as above.
  3. Providing access to 12"+ bed size printers, including printers with high temperature build chambers to print using high performance or medical grade feedstocks
  4. Coordinate information flows regarding access to COVID testing, and encouraging individuals who are up for the challenge in every town everywhere to make that test available to their community. Coordinating with first response teams and leadership to assure access.
  5. Coordinate creation of temporary hospitals or party sites for the infected, to halt spread to healthy people. Includes those who don't want to spread the virus to their family.

Specific Points of Action

  1. Identify and secure B-Cell culture for COVID antibodies. Identify who has them, and if they are willing to share it openly. One possibility: Contact United Biomedical to see if they can release a B-cell monoclonal antibody-producing culture to the public for mass replication in all available bio labs including DIY bio labs - [2]
  2. Identify most promising open source ventilator and PAPR design and improve it or produce it

Links

  1. How to Set Up a DIY Bio Lab.
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