The "big coming out" was not planned like that, from one minute to the next, literally like "thrown into the water". But the current developments around the SARS-CoV-2 virus, whose effects cause the disease COVID-19, have already changed a lot. Everyone was forewarned about this pandemic, prepared the most - but the effects are exceeding all plans. Since the virus also attacks the respiratory tract and lungs, many have to be placed not only in quarantine, but the more serious cases also have to be hospitalized - and mostly in intensive care units. These have to be removed at short notice and expanded with medical equipment. Devices, however, which are usually not directly available or available. Here, additive manufacturing came to the rescue suddenly and quite unexpectedly for many. However, additive manufacturing has so far passed the free swimmer or even the speed swimmer and other tests well. By Sabine Slaughter.