At first, it was a simple scuba diving mask, with integrated fluorescent snorkel. The Easybreath model from Decathlon, which has delighted hundreds of thousands of swimmers, has however found another use in the past two weeks in the fight against coronavirus, worldwide. Over the course of an improbable story combining Italian engineers, a facetious Marseille dentist and videos on social networks, this object has become both an emergency mask for hospital respirators and effective protection for nursing staff.
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Since March 21, according to our information, two million people have downloaded a patent to transform it to adapt it to respirators, more than sixty countries have inquired with Decathlon to use it, hospitals are are equipped worldwide and the sports brand has already offered 30,000 models to France, as many to Spain and 10,000 to Italy, pending
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