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White Salmon team develops ‘last resort respirator’

  • By Bob Schwarz For Columbia Gorge News
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In early March as the Covid-19 virus spread across China and Italy, it appeared to be a distant but increasingly inevitable train-wreck, a crisis hurtling down a fixed trajectory towards world-historic proportions. As anxiety grew, Chris Hipskind, a shop teacher at Columbia High School in White Salmon, invited members of his local industrial advisory committee to discuss whether there was anything they could do to help fight the pandemic.