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Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic

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Description:How do you end an epidemic?More than a hundred years before COVID-19, a deadly pneumonic plague was sweeping through Northeast China, and Dr. Wu Lien-teh bravely stepped in to help with ideas of his own.Growing up in Malaysia, Lien-teh had always loved science and wanted to be a doctor. His studies took him around the world, and in 1910, he brought his expertise to China to fight the plague. He promoted measures that will be familiar to readers today--including encouraging people to wear a face covering he designed from layers of cloth and gauze: the first version of the N95 mask.Lien-teh faced opposition and discrimination, but his trailblazing methods prevailed and continue to keep us safe now. Masked Hero, written by Wu Lien-teh's great-granddaughter Shan Woo Liu and charmingly illustrated by Lisa Wee, celebrates the little-known history of the N95 mask, the story of the hero who devised it, and the small acts we can perform to keep our communities safe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic. To get started finding Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: How do you end an epidemic?More than a hundred years before COVID-19, a deadly pneumonic plague was sweeping through Northeast China, and Dr. Wu Lien-teh bravely stepped in to help with ideas of his own.Growing up in Malaysia, Lien-teh had always loved science and wanted to be a doctor. His studies took him around the world, and in 1910, he brought his expertise to China to fight the plague. He promoted measures that will be familiar to readers today--including encouraging people to wear a face covering he designed from layers of cloth and gauze: the first version of the N95 mask.Lien-teh faced opposition and discrimination, but his trailblazing methods prevailed and continue to keep us safe now. Masked Hero, written by Wu Lien-teh's great-granddaughter Shan Woo Liu and charmingly illustrated by Lisa Wee, celebrates the little-known history of the N95 mask, the story of the hero who devised it, and the small acts we can perform to keep our communities safe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic. To get started finding Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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