In late March, President Trump vowed to provide 100,000 ventilators within 100 days to fight COVID-19. But in the president’s quest to become “the king of ventilators,” will the U.S. have too many of these devices?
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In the rush to manufacture ventilators to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients, a group of engineers—who lacked experience building ventilators—joined the cause. Here’s their story.
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The CorVent Single-Use Ventilator is designed to meet each patient’s respiratory needs in an easy plug-and-play setup with built-in safeguards.
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While hospitals across the U.S. faced a possible shortage of mechanical ventilators due to COVID-19, a self-assembled “skunk works” team at Calif.-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory worked tirelessly to prototype a simple ventilator design for quick and easy assembly from available parts.
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At first, the offer sounded promising: A Silicon Valley engineer told the Federal Emergency Management Agency that he could deliver thousands of ventilators from Chinese manufacturers to treat COVID patients. But the truth was far different.
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