A research collaboration and ensuing friendship between a trauma surgeon in Oregon and a handful of engineers in Florida has resulted in a new ventilator design that requires no electricity and could be a game-changer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Five COVID-19 patients attached to ventilators were killed early Tuesday after a fire broke out at a Russian hospital. Early reports suggest that an overheated ventilator may be to blame.
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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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Here, Gay Gordon-Byrne, the executive director of The Repair Association, shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on the Right to Repair movement and what this may mean for the future.
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