Something meant to save your life in a car crash is being used to make

[SheltieLover]

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With hospitals in need of personal protective equipment to keep medical workers safe, Ford is using airbag material.

DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Company says it is ramping up its production of personal protective equipment for medical professionals. That includes making hospital gowns from airbag material that can be washed and re-used up to 50 times.

Ford said it is working with airbag supplier Joyson Safety Systems to cut and sew up to 100,000 gowns per week, reaching 1.3 million by July 4.

Ford said it worked with Beaumont Health in Metro Detroit to design a gown pattern and test it for sizing. More than 5,000 gowns have already been delivered.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Whatever happened to all those removed Takata airbags?

They're probably contaminated by the propellant and cannot be used.

[lagomorph777]

5. I'm sure the fabric supplier has a ton of surplus - car production stalled.

They wouldn't need to harvest scraps from old airbags - can get huge rolls of fresh fabric.

[Scarsdale]

3. Too bad we did not have a REAL

president months earlier. Imagine how many lives could have been saved. This is wonderful news. Shows how when people come together, goals can be met. Has Jared heard about this yet? He has to set prices, doesn't he?

[logosoco]

4. I think the person in the POTUS office right now

seems to think that just SAYING the words "Presidential Defense Act" makes thing magically occur. He never has caught on to actual work. He passes it all off to that inexperienced son in law and expects miracles. I guess his daughter really talked him up before she married him.

[SheltieLover]

9. So Kush

can set up international bidding for these too! As he did with taxpayer-funded ventilators! (See Propublica article)

[lagomorph777]

6. Imagine how the Defense Production Act could have amplified this sort of thing.

I'm sick this Turd defiling our White House.

[IronLionZion]

7. World War 3 is fought in the hospitals

since the enemy is a virus.

[JohnnyRingo]

8. Recall in about two weeks

I'd bet on tripping hazard resulting in facial injuries.
At least they didn't involve Takata.