Ventilator Makers Race to Prevent a Possible Shortage
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Manufacturers are producing as many as they can to care for Covid-19 patients with breathing problems. Now the federal government is asking for even more.
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White House left states on their own to buy ventilators. Inside their mad scramble
Manufacturers Deliver 4,200 Ventilators to National Stockpile - WSJ
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Rice University emergency ventilator plans now online, Rice News, News and Media Relations
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Ventilator shortage threatens to cripple India's coronavirus response
Exclusive: UK faces 'massive shortage' of ventilators - Swiss manufacturer
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Inside G.M.'s Race to Build Ventilators, Before Trump's Attack - The New York Times
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Help developing countries to manufacture their own medical equipment to solve supply shortages
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Big names of UK engineering in push to make 30,000 ventilators
Ventilator Challenge UK
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The ventilator challenge will test ingenuity to the limit
As N95 masks run out, Japan turns to handful of domestic suppliers - Nikkei Asia