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NASA's Botched COVID-19 Media Update

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 23, 2020
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NASA's Botched COVID-19 Media Update

NASA Develops COVID-19 Prototype Ventilator in 37 Days
“A new high-pressure ventilator developed by NASA engineers and tailored to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients passed a critical test Tuesday at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, an epicenter of COVID-19 in the United States.”
NASA Contributes Expertise, Ingenuity to COVID-19 Fight, NASA
“On April 1, NASA launched an agencywide call for ideas on its internal crowdsourcing platform NASA@WORK for how the agency can leverage its expertise and capabilities to help the nation with this unprecedented crisis. In just two weeks, 250 ideas were submitted, more than 500 comments were submitted, and more than 4,500 votes were cast.”
NASA to Host Media Call Today on Contributions to COVID-19 National Response, NASA
“NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and other agency leaders and experts will host a media video conference at 4:30 p.m. EDT today, Thursday, April 23, to discuss how the agency is channeling its expertise and ingenuity to help the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19).”
Keith’s 4:40 pm note: You can watch/listen to this event here: https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive. NASA PAO has refused to provide me with the dial-in information – despite having sent a request to the designated PAO representative more than 3 hours ago. So here is my question – doubtful that I will get an answer. “WIll NASA be filing patents for these COVID-19 ideas or will the information be released without intent to patent or under a Creative Commons license since these ideas were provided by NASA civil servants? If there is intellectual property that needs to be protected by patenting or other formal processes how long will that take and how will it delay the release of these ideas for use to reply during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic?”
Keith’s update: Only after I complained by email and Twitter to PAO did I get a Webex invitation from PAO for an event that was already 40 minutes underway. When I clicked on the start link in the email NASA sent me I was downloading software that cannot be opened due to a malicious software error originating at nasaenterprise.webex.com. By the time I reinstalled the software that was now screwed up the event was over. I give up.
P.S. other media folks were complaining about crashing and malfunctioning webcasts too.

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