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 # **Folding Covid Isolation Box**
 The Covid Isolation Box is a folded clear plastic enclosure designed to protect practitioners from sputum and other bodily fluids emitted by covid-19 patients. The design is lightweight and disposable, and can be stacked at pre-staging locations around an emergency department for quick deployment. The box is roughly 22" tall, 24" wide, and 20" deep when deployed, providing plenty of room around the patient's head and upper torso for intubation and other procedures (note that the first image below is an earlier iteration with less headroom). On-site assembly takes less than five minutes, and the box uses ~$15 in materials for construction.
 
+## status
+The Covid Isolation Box is currently undergoing IRB-approved trials at Boston Medical Center with 35 commercially sourced units. Feedback from medical professionals involved in this trial will feed in to future design iterations. 
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 <img src="img/MIT Box 2-min.jpg" alt="Smiley face" width="800" >
 
 <img src="img/rotul.png" alt="Smiley face" width="800" >