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The COVID-19 outbreak is far from over—but some Americans are jumping the gun when it comes to easing up on social distancing, according to new data from the University of Maryland (UMD).

It started with a simple goal: Create a 3D-printed mask that could be used when personal protective equipment (PPE) is in short supply, just to see if it could be done.Soon, the staff at TechPort, a University of Maryland-supported business incubator in St. Mary’s County, was handling a much larger operation, with dozens of local engineers joining in after word spread to produce face shields, breast pumps-turned-ventilators, and a device to sterilize PPE using heat.

Understanding and Exploring Network Epidemiology in the Time of Coronavirus (#Net_COVID) is a special online workshop series developed and presented by the University of Maryland’s COMBINE program in network biology in partnership with Vermont’s Complex Systems Center.