TEXAS - American Ingenuity and PPEs
Texas nurse works to develop masks with better filtration than N95
The chief executive nurse at University Health System has developed a mask that has better filtration than the N95 masks.
Nurse Tommye Austin used AC filter material she purchased at Lowe’s to create 600 masks as reserves as San Antonio, Texas, prepares for a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations that expect to occur in May, according to reports by KSAT.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/texas-nurse-develop-masks-better-than-n95
VIRGIN AIRLINES
Richard Branson offers his island as collateral as Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia face collapse
In an open letter to employees, Branson said the survival of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia was important to provide much needed competition to British Airways, an IAG (ICAGY) subsidiary, and Qantas (QABSY). “If Virgin Australia disappears, Qantas would effectively have a monopoly of the Australian skies,” he noted.
Branson, who has already pumped $250 million into Virgin Group companies in response to the pandemic, said he would offer his Necker Island estate in the Caribbean as collateral “to raise as much money against the island as possible to save as many jobs as possible around the group.”
CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/business/virgin-australia-richard-branson/index.html