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The factories are going to war.

All over the world, distilleries are bubbling up hand sanitizer, rather than hooch. Auto assembly lines are cobbling together ventilators for patients and respirators for doctors and nurses. And a popsicle stick maker in Maine is churning out nose swabs, the literal tip of the spear for coronavirus testing.