The EpiShuttle, a hospital gurney enclosed in a bubble of plastic and studded with sealed access ports, keeps contagious patients isolated while on the move—eliminating the need to disinfect ambulances and helicopters after each run. EpiGuard, the Norwegian startup behind it, is racing to satisfy the hundreds of orders that have been placed amid the coronavirus pandemic, says founder Fridtjof Heyerdahl, a doctor who began to develop the equipment after the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
Image: A new European agency has funded Norwegian startup EpiGuard, which makes gurneys that isolate patients. EPIGUARD
