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Puritan Medical Products

Scott Wellman, Chief Financial Officer at Puritan Medical Products speaks to Matt Gagnon about how they are responding to The Coronavirus. Puritan Medical Products is part of a family company, Hardwood Products Company LP, that started out making toothpicks but soon expanded into medical products such as tongue depressors and wood applicators now they are one of the top two makers of the specialized testing swabs that are desperately needed in areas hit by the virus

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