"Where you have a problem with ventilators -- we're working very hard trying to find (ventilators)," the President said.
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This is crucial for masks and other personal protective equipment, ventilators and supplies for ventilators, and laboratory materials.
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I have ventilators this morning, but the hospital up the street from me is out of ventilators at the moment.
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"We don't have the capacity in the hospitals, we don't the ventilators, you can't find enough ventilators," Cuomo said Wednesday.
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Ford will make the ventilators at a factory in Michigan, operating around the clock at full production, making 7,200 ventilators per week.
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If Tesla winds up making ventilators, it will most certainly be a good thing, and getting 1,000 ventilators to California is huge.
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The agency will also allow ventilators and companies not approved by the FDA to provide ventilators through the agency's Emergency Use Authorization process.
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"We don't have the capacity in the hospitals, we don't the ventilators, you can't find enough ventilators," Cuomo said in the CNN interview Wednesday.
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Vet schools send ventilators to hospitals Animal hospitals and veterinary schools are sending critically needed ventilators to hospitals facing supply shortages amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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But the state is making headway: Mr. Cuomo said 7,000 more ventilators have been procured, in addition to 4,000 ventilators sent by the federal government.
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While the state has dispensed ventilators to New Orleans hospitals, Edwards said the supply of ventilators could run short by the first week of April.
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But New York state is still woefully short on ventilators: Right now, the state has 4,000 ventilators in its system and has purchased 7,000 more.
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He said Medtronic is open sourcing one of its lower-end ventilators in less acute situations for others to make ventilators as quickly as they can.
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The Strategic National Stockpile said Wednesday that it held approximately 16,660 ventilators before the coronavirus response, and ventilators have been deployed over the past few days.
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Not only won't there be enough ventilators, there won't be enough supplies for the ventilators, hospital beds to support patients -- or health care workers to help patients.
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Following GM confirming it will build critical-care ventilators with Ventec Life Systems in Indiana, Trump ordered GM to make the ventilators under the Defense Production Act.
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That number then shrank to 7,500 ventilators in the initial run, or maybe 5,000, an apparent recognition that auto transmissions and ventilators had very little in common.
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While this may make more ventilators available sooner, it still doesn't guarantee that America will have enough ventilators by the time patients across the country need them.
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Not enough ventilators -- In a call with governors, Trump encouraged state leaders to try to get their own ventilators to treat an expected onslaught of sick older Americans.
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"No one has these ventilators and no one ever anticipated a situation where you would need this number of ventilators to deal with a public health emergency," he added.
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STOCKHOLM, March 16 (Reuters) - Getinge, the world's biggest maker of ventilators and heart-lung machines, will deliver 500 ventilators to Italy, the Swedish company's chief executive told Reuters on Monday.
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Tests, masks, ventilators -- not his grievances about the media.
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Bridge ventilators could be used to treat some of the less critically ill Covid-19 patients in order to free up more sophisticated ventilators for those in dire need, Virgin Orbit said.
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"The ventilators are to this war what missiles were to World War II," Cuomo said, as he urged health care facilities that aren't using ventilators to hand them over to the state.
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Cuomo pleaded with the Trump administration to help provide ventilators, personal protective equipment and hospital beds, saying New York state has about 7,000 ventilators, but is in need of at least 30,000.
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That could mean almost one million people needing ventilators just for Covid-19, though not all at the same time, yet we have only about 72,000 full ventilators in the United States. 19183.
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Andrew Cuomo says his state needs 30,000 more ventilators for the projected cases in the next two weeks, and the number of cases across the US that require ventilators could reach 960,000 overall.
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" Sharing ventilators presents 'myriad issues,' expert says Asked whether splitting ventilators between patients could work, Dr. Mary Dale Peterson, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, told CNN, "The short answer is no.
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U.S. hospitals have a total of 211,230 ventilators — 250,219 full-featured ventilators, and 2400,1603 more basic ones that can be used in an emergency, according to a 2160 study by Johns Hopkins University.
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They can't breathe on their own and are on ventilators.
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Most patients at Life Care relied on ventilators to breathe.
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Ventilators help patients breathe when they can't on their own.
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Several other initiatives have focused on repairing or building ventilators.
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" "The World market for face masks and ventilators is Crazy.
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Absolutely everything related to health — testing, hospital beds, ventilators, research.
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It will now try to buy ventilators and testing kits.
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This time around, Ford might make ventilators for US hospitals.
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Cuomo said last weekend that the state needed 30,000 ventilators.
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But switching from cars to ventilators is not so easy.
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And there's a shortage of critical ventilators and hospital beds.
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Andrew Cuomo's request for 30,000 more ventilators for the state.
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Doctors are worried there will be a shortage of ventilators.
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"He's supposed to be buying his own ventilators," Trump said.
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Dyson's ventilators will be available in early April, Jack added.
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You want a pat on the back for 400 ventilators?
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So they have to release ventilators, if they have them.
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Scaling production to 7,200 ventilators per week at full production
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They bought a heap of ventilators to keep people alive.
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It needs a total of 30,000 ventilators, according to Cuomo.
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What use are munitions if we do not have ventilators?
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They were taken off ventilators and died around 5 p.m.
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And yet, as of March 26, Cuomo said that New York had only about 12,000 ventilators total, just over a third of the projected 40,19 ventilators required to accommodate the inevitable increase of patients.
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Most recently, he has touted his own efforts to get ventilators to hospitals that need them to treat COVID-19 patients, and said his companies would begin to produce ventilators, as well, if needed.
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He has also promoted his own efforts, procuring and distributing ventilators to hospitals that need them, and promised that his companies would begin to produce ventilators, as well, donating rather than selling them all.
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In a tweet on March 225, President Trump said that General Motors, the automotive company that had previously promised to manufacture 270,000 ventilators "very fast," has since backtracked, promising 6,000 ventilators by late April.
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The federal stockpile does not have enough ventilators or other medical equipment to meet the demands of the coronavirusKlink told ProPublica that the medical device company was producing 1,000 ventilators a week earlier this year.
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Read more:Elon Musk says Tesla's New York Gigafactory will reopen and start producing ventilators 'as soon as humanly possible'Elon Musk has delivered 1,000 ventilators to help California hospitals treat COVID-19 patients, according to Gov.
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At about $6,000, standard bubble-CPAPs are cheaper than conventional ventilators.
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A February report reveals that the US has about 170,000 ventilators.
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In Italy, hospitals are so overwhelmed that ventilators are being rationed.
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Andrew Cuomo's (D) plea to the federal government for more ventilators.
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"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators," Trump claimed.
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We shouldn't rely on Elon Musk making ventilators to save us.
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They are not well equipped with ventilators and intensive care stations.
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""They are not well equipped with ventilators and intensive care stations.
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"We will make ventilators if there is a shortage," Musk responded.
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Ventilators are key in treating a respiratory illness like COVID-19.
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Hospitals already lack ICU beds, ventilators, and respirators to treat patients.
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GM (GM) and Tesla (TSLA) have also pledged to make ventilators.
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No more political attacks, just PPEs, ventilators, N8003 masks, test kits.
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"We're still shopping for ventilators all across the country," Cuomo said.
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One issue at hand is that GM doesn't currently make ventilators.
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India banned the export of ventilators and sanitizers on March 24.
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He also said there are 10,000 ventilators in the national stockpile.
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And, hopefully, we will get him the ventilators that he needs.
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People with ventilators can get special bags to keep them dry.
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Britain lags behind other European nations in its supply of ventilators.
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That includes 000 million facemasks, 20,0000 protective suits and 10,000 ventilators.
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The city is also getting an emergency shipment of 2,000 ventilators.
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"The number one challenge is we need 30,000 ventilators," Cuomo explained.
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You want a pat on the back for sending 230 ventilators?
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" He also urged Ford Motor to "GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!
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There are about 10 ventilators and 40 ICU-level hospital beds.
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The stockpile maintains another 22014,219 ventilators, which come in three varieties.
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New York requires 30,000 ventilators and has obtained 7,000, Cuomo said.
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Cuomo scoffed at FEMA sending 400 ventilators when 30,000 were needed.
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There are not enough ventilators," he said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe.
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Ventilators, rooms and supplies will not be the only limited resources.
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Headlines Dyson to produce 15,000 ventilators from scratch 'in weeks' on.ft.
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We will make ventilators if there is a shortage Musk went on to indicate that he would direct that ventilators be sent to hospitals acutely affected by a potential shortage but that production would take time.
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The companies said they are poised to deliver the first ventilators next month and ramp up to a capacity of more than 10,000 critical care ventilators per month with the infrastructure and capability to scale further.
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Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the state has about 533,000 to 4,000 ventilators, a potentially lifesaving device that helps patients breathe, and has purchased about 7,000 more, but it needs a minimum of 30,000 additional ventilators.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) implored the federal government on live television and radio early on Tuesday to send his state 30,000 ventilators, far more than the 200063 ventilators he said were initially offered by the Trump administration.
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"Additionally, the state is gathering ventilators from different health facilities from across the state to be used in the most critical areas and has already purchased 6,000 additional ventilators," the state said in a press release said.
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A February report from the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins found that the US had about 170,000 ventilators, with 160,000 ventilators ready for use in hospitals along with about 8,900 held in a national reserve.
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Days after telling governors to fend for themselves in obtaining critical supplies like ventilators, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he would invoke the Defense Production Act to ramp up the manufacture of critical supplies, including ventilators.
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This may include opting against ventilators, feeding tubes or other mechanical support.
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They have acquired extra ventilators and worked out an emergency staffing schedule.
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Is that the reason why having ventilators has suddenly become so important?
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You know, you go to major hospitals, sometimes they have 2 ventilators.
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You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes, they'll have two ventilators.
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But he should have ordered the ventilators, and he had a choice.
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Its governor, Andrew Cuomo, angrily told reporters that he needed "30,000" ventilators.
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But it's not currently planning to build the ventilators at its plants.
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You know, you're going to major hospitals sometimes, they'll have two ventilators.
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Edwards told reporters he's trying to get those hospital workers more ventilators.
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"As we sit here today, the problem is not ventilators," Colwell says.
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"As we sit here today, the problem is not ventilators," Colwell says.
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Early Monday morning, an additional 400 ventilators were delivered to the city.
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With no ambulances and no ventilators and no vaccines and no antibiotics.
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Britain expects to need many more than the 5,000 ventilators it has.
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They also say that their hospitals are facing dire shortages of ventilators.
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Essential medical supplies, from exam gloves to ventilators, are in short supply.
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There are simultaneous effort to procure ventilators for the most severe patients.
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More serious cases may require hospital equipment, including ventilators to aid breathing.
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Dyson will produce 10,000 ventilators for the UK and donate another 5,000.
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Ford, GE, and 3M are partnering to build ventilators and protective equipment.
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Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly demanded more ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE).
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Meanwhile, New York state is running out of ventilators, space, and time.
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Hospitals across the country remain in need of ventilators and protective equipment.
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You know, you go into major hospitals sometimes they'll have two ventilators.
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They don't want to lose their ventilators in case they need them.
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Once industry rapidly scales ventilator production, where should these ventilators be delivered?
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Plastic surgeons and outpatient surgery centers also have ventilators in their offices.
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States cannot build more hospitals, acquire ventilators or modify facilities quickly enough.
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This includes vaccines, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies like respirator masks and ventilators.
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City and state officials are asking the federal government for additional ventilators.
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There are insufficient tanks and artillery (ventilators) to fight off the virus.
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Regardless, the actual production of the ventilators is Ventec's area, not GM's.
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Now all of a sudden they're saying, 'Can we order 30,000 ventilators?
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Fears about supply shortages in masks or ventilators have been widely reported.
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They had already begun ordering more masks, gloves, face shields, and ventilators.
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GE did not disclose how many additional ventilators it expected to produce.
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Some share designs for homemade ventilators, often machines they've dreamt up themselves.
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But it's unclear what capacity Tesla will have to produce the ventilators.
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More important, there are only so many intensive care beds and ventilators.
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The gadget repair company iFixit is building a digital library of dozens of service manuals for ventilators and anesthesia machines that can be used as backup ventilators to ensure that the machines can be repaired as quickly as possible.
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Trump says the US will obtain 100,000 ventilators in next 100 days As parts of the US face a looming shortage of life-saving devices, President Trump said the administration would procure 100,000 ventilators in the next 100 days.
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The state has about 303,230 to 2000,2400 ventilators on hand and has purchased about 7,000 more, but it needs a minimum of 30,000 additional ventilators within the next two weeks, when the outbreak is expected to peak, Cuomo said.
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The state has about 3,000 to 4,000 ventilators on hand and has purchased about 7,000 more, but it needs a minimum of 30,000 additional ventilators within the next two weeks, when the outbreak is expected to peak, Cuomo said.
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But several thousand make it to hospitals and ventilators before being pronounced dead.
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The bacteria can also contaminate medical equipment, such as blood catheters and ventilators.
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We say, maybe, but in the meantime, just listen to those ventilators sing.
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They were using ventilators and suffocated after the fire spread to the unit.
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Those in the intensive care unit were mostly on ventilators, Dr. Sahoo said.
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One study, published in 2010, estimated that American hospitals had stockpiled 160,000 ventilators.
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Still, the number of available ventilators in some regions is already too low.
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And now all of a sudden they're saying, 'Can we order 28,000 ventilators?
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And now, all of a sudden, they're saying, 'Can we order 30,000 ventilators?
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And, more ventilators will be arriving in the state over the coming weeks.
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Some are drafting automakers and aerospace manufacturers to repurpose factories to produce ventilators.
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The UK currently has around 5,000 ventilators but needs up to 20,000 more.
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Other carmakers in addition to Tesla have expressed interest in producing ventilators instead.
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Ventilators are also in short supply — and unexpected industries could start making them.
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"He should have ordered the ventilators," Trump said, citing a debunked conservative headline.
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"You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they'll have two ventilators," Trump said.
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The source insisted that GM was offering to produce the ventilators at cost.
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Getting Ford, GE and GM to produce ventilators is a great first step.
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And now, all of a sudden, they're saying, can we order 30,000 ventilators?
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And now all of a sudden, they're saying, 'Can we order 30,000 ventilators?
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The best way automakers can help fast Not all ventilators are exactly alike.
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And now all of a sudden they're saying, 'Can we order 30,113 ventilators?
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Trump later said he felt Cuomo was requesting an unnecessary number of ventilators.
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New York State could be thousands of ventilators short of what it needs.
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There are already critical shortages: A Bronx hospital is running out of ventilators.
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"You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators?" he said.
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She unplugged her daughter's ventilators and removed the IV tubes from her body.
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It must start stockpiling ventilators and mandate that companies increase their production significantly.
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Other automakers have also vowed to help manufacture ventilators on a large scale.
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"Well, you know, hospitals are supposed to have ventilators, too," he told reporters.
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This came less than a day after Trump downplayed the need for ventilators.
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Across the US, hospitals are struggling to obtain vital lifesaving equipment, especially ventilators.
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"Hospital workers do not have protective equipment, we don't have the necessary ventilators."
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" Silver responded, noting that "there's a shortage now, how many ventilators you making?
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GM said Friday that it's working with Ventec Life Systems to manufacture ventilators.
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Andrew Cuomo has warned of a looming shortage of ventilators and hospital beds.
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And also, the ventilators to take care of patients that are truly struggling.
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"Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves," he told them.
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We have no medications to keep these patients even ventilated—let alone ventilators.
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But how many ventilators these efforts may produce and when is still unknown.
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Boxes containing ventilators and medical equipment lay piled on a sidewalk on Monday.
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But even if the country had enough ventilators, operating them can be dangerous.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he'd buy ventilators from Musk.
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Italy appears to be facing shortages of ventilators and intensive care unit beds.
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But ventilators may be in short supply in the coming weeks and months.
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Volkswagen AG said it is testing 3D printers to make parts for ventilators.
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The partnership could increase capacity to more than 10,000 ventilators per month; hospitals confront a critical shortage of ventilators as the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads across the US.GM also said that it would produce surgical masks at a plant in Michigan.
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Ventec and GM issued a joint press release on Friday saying they plan to ship ventilators "as soon as next month" — presumably, April — and believe they can "ramp up" to a manufacturing capacity of more than 2000,220 ventilators per month.
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Occasionally in the hospital, people will have to be put on ventilators for that.
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The hospitalized patients reported difficulty breathing and chest pains, some requiring ventilators to breathe.
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They were placed on ventilators as nurses monitored their breathing and a community prayed.
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"States cannot build more hospitals, acquire ventilators, or modify facilities quickly enough," Cuomo wrote.
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The state has a capacity of 3,000 ventilators, but Cuomo said that's not enough.
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In a pandemic, hospitals would struggle to find trained professionals to operate the ventilators.
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" Hayes' reaction: "The idea that no one anticipated a shortage of ventilators is ridiculous.
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The bubble-shaped containers over the patients' heads in the video are mobile ventilators.
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General Motors is working with Ventec Life Systems to accelerate the production of ventilators.
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And I sure don't need ventilators in five months, four months or three months.
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It is not clear exactly how Ford will help GE to make more ventilators.
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On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom told reporters that Musk had donated 1,000 ventilators.
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New York has also purchased 218,000 ventilators and is "still shopping," the governor said.
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" Sharing ventilators, she said, would present "myriad issues you would have to contend with.
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They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed ventilators, 'very quickly'.
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Trump tweeted Tuesday morning that 400 ventilators had been secured for New York City.
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Some of the ventilators will be built in GM's Kokomo, Indiana, electronics assembly plant.
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The President invoked the DPA on Friday, requiring General Motors to begin making ventilators.
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Meanwhile, the ICU is quieter -- as the lulled beep of machines, including ventilators, reverberates.
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The city has received all of the 2,500 ventilators promised by the federal government.
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Sending ventilators and masks and pharmaceuticals would help, but we don't have that ability.
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"You want a pat on the back for sending 2700 ventilators," Mr. Cuomo said.
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We also looked at a yearslong effort to address the country's shortage of ventilators.
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The limited supply of ventilators and nurses forced a deadly calculus, Dr. Vergano said.
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However, Trump later attempted to downplay the dire need for ventilators in the state.
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TODAY'S NUMBER 50,000 That's how many ventilators Ford plans to make in 100 days.
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They said they were going to give us 219,210 much needed Ventilators, "very quickly".
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In the ICU, he has young patients in their 20s and 30s on ventilators.
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The VOCSN critical-care ventilators are FDA-cleared and could begin shipping next month.
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Each rail car also has ventilators, oxygen, and six medical staff, according to NPR.
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China also at the weekend flew in doctors, ventilators and medical masks to Serbia.
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So we have a lot of ventilators, but we're going to be ordering more.
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Julie Fahey, who said that there are 688 ventilators in the state of Oregon.
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Cuomo said New York would need at least 30,000 ventilators in the coming weeks.
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We are in the process -- we just distributed to New York some 4,000 ventilators.
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She also raised questions about the national stockpile of personal protective equipment and ventilators.
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They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, 'very quickly'.
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Medical officials, though, have also expressed a need for swabs, testing materials and ventilators.
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Cuomo implored the government to intervene and order companies to begin manufacturing ventilators now.
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Ford said it would make the ventilators at its Rawsonville Components Plant in Michigan.
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The company already repaired 80 ventilators and plan to refurbish an additional 120 today.
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There's even a crowdsourced effort to make functional ventilators out of readily available parts.
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Ventilators and trained critical-care staff can't be mobilized as fast as government funds.
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In a moderately severe pandemic, there wouldn't be enough ventilators to support patients' breathing.
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Parliament has already had new ventilators installed on the roof to clear the gas.
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M. sold the plant last year and will be making ventilators in Kokomo, Ind.
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M. sold the plant last year and will be making ventilators in Kokomo, Ind.
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Even so, there is not a straightforward path to implementing DIY ventilators in hospitals.
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De Blasio: Not enough ventilators for this week As the number of coronavirus cases grows in New York City, de Blasio also said that his city has enough supplies to last one week, but will need more ventilators before the week is up.
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WHAT'S IMPORTANT TODAY The race for ventilators Ford, in partnership with GE, plans to make as many as 219,000 simple ventilators for coronavirus patients within 100 days and will aim to continue producing 30,000 a month after that, the company has announced.
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Under an extreme influenza pandemic scenario outlined in the document, hospitals in the state would only have about 15% of the ventilators they need to care for patients, assuming ventilators are still being used for other patients not related to the outbreak.
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The deal, which includes FDA-cleared ventilators shipping as soon as next month, was announced shortly after President Donald Trump criticized the automaker and CEO Mary Barra for not moving quickly enough to produce life-saving ventilators wanting "top dollar" for doing so.
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Some of the pediatric residents use ventilators and have trachea tubes for additional breathing help.
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As of this morning, all of the children were stable, though most are on ventilators.
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I have noisy equipment, ventilators and beds that wheeze and whistle all day and night.
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That includes contracts for 10,000 pulmonary ventilators, 2 million face masks, and 20,000 protective suits.
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Trump insisted that there were "millions" of supplies, including masks and ventilators, heading to states.
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We are purchasing 85033,000 additional ventilators and gathering supplies from every source we can get.
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" He also said the department is prepared to distribute up to 2,000 ventilators "as needed.
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But with an abruptly heightened demand for ventilators, manufacturers say it's hard to keep up.
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"The President did ask about ventilators in terms of how important they were," Benton said.
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Did we use this time to radically increase the number of hospital beds and ventilators?
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Doctors and nurses are pleading for help — for protective equipment, for more respirators and ventilators.
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"There are not enough facemasks, gloves, ventilators, hospital beds to get us through this," Rep.
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Medtronic, a global medical device company operating in over 150 countries, has long manufactured ventilators.
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"The ventilators are to this war what missiles were to World War Two," Cuomo said.
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As the number of coronavirus cases climbs, life-saving ventilators become more and more important.
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You pick the 26,000 who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators.
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He said New York needs 30,000 more ventilators on top of the 7,000 it has.
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The state will soon be bringing in more ventilators and personal protective equipment, Dorough said.
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But New York officials continue to search for more ventilators to add to their supply.
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The plant in Kokomo, Indiana, where GM has considered making these ventilators usually assembles electronics.
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The first of these ventilators are expected to be delivered in April, the companies said.
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Designs for ventilators, their software or key components are often patented or involve trade secrets.
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I'll go better than what the President said -- I hope I don't need any ventilators.
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"We're going to need at least several hundred more ventilators very quickly," the mayor said.
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When the hospital ran out of life-saving ventilators, it started using anesthesia machines instead.
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During no part of the speech were ventilators, hospital beds, or other preparedness measures discussed.
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During no part of the speech were ventilators, hospital beds, or other preparedness measures discussed.
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New York State only has about 220,250 ventilators, one for each intensive-care hospital room.
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Nine million Californians are under orders to stay home, and ventilators are in short supply.
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On Twitter, Mayor de Blasio asked Elon Musk, C.E.O. of Tesla, for help obtaining ventilators.
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Airon currently makes three of the ventilators per day at its factory in Melbourne, Florida.
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Trump lauded Ford and GE, saying they would churn out 1003,000 ventilators in 100 days.
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Musk had previously tweeted that SpaceX and Tesla will work on ventilators, without providing specifics.
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The order came amid a dispute with GM over a contract to produce the ventilators.
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CMS did not directly respond to questions about whether there is a dearth of ventilators.
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The bill would provide funding for masks, ventilators, community preparations and vaccine development, Schumer said.
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The increasingly austere governor of New York is now demanding ventilators from the federal government.
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Doctors desperately need ventilators, or machines that help people unable to breathe on their own.
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To tackle the crisis, the government bought 500 ventilators and four million masks from China.
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Ventilators are not the only pieces of medical equipment that hospitals are scrambling to secure.
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He had previously tweeted that SpaceX and Tesla will work on ventilators, without providing specifics.
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Friday, March 20: Worries about ventilators mountNew York City has 5,151 cases and 29 deaths.
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"Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves," he said in mid-March.
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We want ventilators, we want the supplies, we want oxygen tanks and monitors and space.
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With supplies running low, anesthesia departments, veterinarians and even zoos are offering ventilators to hospitals.
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In other words, an abundance of ventilators today could turn into far too few tomorrow.
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Ultimately, the limiting factor for ventilators may be having enough healthy professionals to operate them.
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Musk told CleanTechnica however that the companies: "should have over 1000 ventilators by next week."
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The state has received 4,252 ventilators to date, 1,000 of which need to be refurbished.!
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At the onset of the pandemic, California had approximately 7,500 ventilators across its hospital systems.
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At some hospitals, administrators have only recently started asking about supplies of ventilators and oxygen.
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We would need ventilators, he figured, but also personal protective equipment and lots of it.
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"Everyone wants to know why didn't we have 100,000 ventilators in the SNS," Branson said.
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New York state has its own plan for how to ration ventilators during a pandemic.
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On Thursday, he told CNN that the state will need about 30,000 ventilators in total.
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More recently, experts have debated how to allocate ventilators during a potential future flu pandemic.
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Louisiana's largest city will run out of ventilators by April 4 and hospital beds by April 10 according to the current trajectory of the virus, the governor said Sunday "Ventilators are the short-term, really big pressing issue we're trying to solve for," he said.
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" While it's impossible to predict how many the U.S. will need, Farrugia said the "less cases we have in the United States, the less ventilators we're going to need, and if we can space that over time then I do think we'll have enough ventilators.
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But that announcement was put on hold once the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) learned it would cost more than $1 billion, with both the number of ventilators the joint venture could actually produce and the number of ventilators that will be needed still unknown.
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They can influence resource utilization for health systems, such as intensive care units, resuscitation, or ventilators.
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There may not be enough ventilators or bed space for a crush of seriously ill patients.
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Andrew Cuomo said on Thursday that the state has about 5,000 ventilators but anticipates needing 30,000.
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Saperia also set up a WhatsApp group in which specialists discuss modifying, repairing or building ventilators.
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The American government has a stockpile of 16,000 ventilators, the Center for Public Integrity reported Tuesday.
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The governor had said the state had obtained 7,000 ventilators, including 400 from the federal government.
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"Possibly a shortage of gloves, respirator masks and ventilators for people who develop pneumonia," Jha said.
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The state has a current capacity of 3,000 ventilators, but Cuomo wants 37,000 intensive care units.
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" -- ER doctor Stephen Anderson in Auburn, Washington, on ABC's "World News Tonight" Thursday: "We need ventilators.
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The U.S. doesn't have enough ventilators to keep up with the demand COVID19 patients will present.
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Musk initially made the pledge to produce ventilators in response to a tweet on Wednesday evening.
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"Please repurpose your factory to make ventilators which are needed ASAP," the user Raja Abbas wrote.
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New Orleans is facing critical shortages of ventilators and protective equipment, an official told CNN Thursday.
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"I think what's just as concerning is the fact that we need more ventilators," she said.
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Trump, during a Fox News town hall on Tuesday, hit Cuomo for the shortage of ventilators.
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Andrew Cuomo predicted New York would need an additional 30.000 ventilators to effectively battle the pandemic.
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And some, like Ford (F), and GM (GM), are exploring producing ventilators in their own factories.
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New Orleans, already the epicenter in the state's cases, is also short on ventilators and equipment.
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"We need gowns, we need gloves we need masks we need more vents (ventilators)," Mollette said.
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This could help reduce the need for seriously ill coronavirus patients to be placed on ventilators.
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A hospital in Washington State projects that it may not have enough ventilators in two weeks.
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Washington State's strategy asks doctors to re-evaluate their patients on ventilators about once a day.
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The automaker said it will make the ventilators at its Rawsonville Components Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
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They recommend that a triage officer or a committee thinks broadly about how to allocate ventilators.
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They recommend that a triage officer or a committee thinks broadly about how to allocate ventilators.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said last week that he had a discussion with Medtronic about ventilators.
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GM confirmed that it's retooling a plant in Indiana to manufacture ventilators with Ventec Life Systems.
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We have only 93 ventilators in the hospital, and most of them are already being used.
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"Our hope is that we don't need as many ventilators as people are saying," he says.
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He said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it would send the state 400 ventilators.
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Reports say that New York hospitals are full with patients on ventilators who need treatment now.
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And it literally will increase the supply of ventilators by tens of thousands across the country.
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GM said it is donating its resources to produce the ventilators, known as VOCSN, at cost.
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In the face of a global shortage, American industries can step up and quickly produce ventilators.
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"What am I going to do with 400 ventilators when I need 30,000?" he said later.
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Patients in LTACHs are very ill and may need cardiac monitoring, intravenous lines and mechanical ventilators.
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Typically, people who need ventilators stay on them for just three to four days, Cuomo said.
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The country has also turned to NATO partners for protective gears and ventilators to treat patients.
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He encouraged Trump to order the production of masks, gowns and ventilators, among other medical supplies.
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There may not be enough ventilators or bed space for an influx of seriously ill patients.
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He acquired 1,000 ventilators from China and delivered them to Los Angeles, an effort California Gov.
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The United States is facing a daunting shortage of lifesaving ventilators due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ventilators, simply put, are machines that help people breathe when they can't breathe on their own.
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"Anything industry can do to help us accelerate production of ventilators will be welcome," Frieden said.
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Only about 2300,295 full-featured ventilators were in hospitals across the country, a 295 study found.
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We also need better diagnostics and treatment as well as more ventilators to keep people alive.
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Core to the fight against coronavirus, then, will be keeping the ventilators hospitals do have online.
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"Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment—try getting it yourselves," he said, according to The Times.
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New York State is expected to need about 25,000 more ventilators than it has on hand.
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There are 98,000 intensive care beds in the U.S. and somewhere between 93,000 and 200,000 ventilators.
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According to the report, there are an estimated 8,991 ventilators in New York, including emergency stockpiles.
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"Nobody in their wildest dreams would have ever thought that we'd need tens of thousands of ventilators," Trump said, though a 2015 study by government disease experts estimated that the US would need as many as 60,000 additional ventilators to deal with a severe flu pandemic.
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"Depending on the needs of the federal government, Ventec and GM are poised to deliver the first ventilators next month and ramp up to a manufacturing capacity of more than 10,000 critical care ventilators per month with the infrastructure and capability to scale further," Ventec said.
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Musk pointed out that "we don't necessarily have a shortage, we have a maldistribution of ventilators, where we have ventilators sitting in places where they're not being used and aren't going to states hit first, like New York, like Washington state, like California," according to Inslee.
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He said that the hospital had about 50 ventilators, but that some older ventilators that were still functioning could be pulled into service if needed, and that other forms of ventilation that do not require a breathing tube could be used to support patients with pneumonia.
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The federal government can order manufacturers to build ventilators under the Federal Defense Production Act, Cuomo said.
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Officials are now scrambling to secure enough masks, respirators and ventilators to meet the rapidly exploding need.
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Additional funding for treatment, temporary hospitals, ventilators and other measures will need to remain a top priority.
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But there might not be enough ventilators to meet that need if the outbreak becomes too widespread.
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And physicians are sharing risky, but potentially life saving, techniques to hack ventilators to improve patient capacity.
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Experts have warned that America faces a shortage of critical supplies like ventilators in the months ahead.
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"You pick the 5003,000 who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators," he said.
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Andrew Cuomo, who criticized the federal government hours earlier for not sending enough ventilators to the state.
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The ventilators are the "difference between life and death for thousands of New Yorkers," de Blasio said.
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She estimated San Francisco could need as many as 1,500 more ventilators and 5,000 more hospital beds.
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New York state has approved the splitting of ventilators to allow one machine to serve two patients.
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Whitmer also said her state needs more ventilators and personal protective equipment, including masks and hospital gowns.
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Shortages of equipment such as ventilators, gloves and masks have been widely reported in New York City.
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President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Friday requiring General Motors to produce more ventilators.
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Toyota is finalizing agreements to begin working with at least two companies that make ventilators and respirators.
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Dr. Brueggemann projects that in the next two weeks his hospital may find itself without enough ventilators.
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And the city's hospitals are expressing growing alarm about shortages of critical supplies, including masks and ventilators.
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Mr. Cavalcanti, the founder and C.E.O. of MegaBots, a robotics company, initially intended to focus on ventilators.
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Earlier this week, Ford said it is working with GE Healthcare to expand production capacity of ventilators.
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There is a severe shortage of ventilators in many countries, including Britain, that are fighting severe outbreaks.
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Ford is also working with GE Healthcare to increase GE's own production of its more advanced ventilators.
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The companies said Friday that the ventilators will be produced at GM's engine plant in Kokomo, Ind.
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Ventec describes these VOCSN devices as multi-function ventilators that were cleared in 2017 by the FDA.
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But don't expect new masks, ventilators, gloves and goggles to show up in the field right away.
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During the call, however, Trump urged governors to try to get respirators, ventilators and other equipment themselves.
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The difference between the two types of beds is that the latter have additional equipment, like ventilators.
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Based on early data from China, a little more than 2 percent of coronavirus patients require ventilators.
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Ventilators are in short supply in the US. Reported symptoms of patients with coronavirus include difficulty breathing.
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Governors competing with each other for ventilators, because the government refuses to federalize the supply chain — chaos.
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The FDA-cleared ventilators are scheduled to ship "as soon as" April, according to a press release.
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Ford will work with 3M, GE, and the UAW to make respirators, ventilators and medical face shields.
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Without swift action, parts of the United States will run out of ventilators in the coming weeks.
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But in an interview Thursday night with Sean Hannity, the president played down the need for ventilators.
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Hospitals have been pulling old machines out of storage and requisitioning ventilators that anesthesiologists use during surgery.
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"I don't believe you need 13,000 or 30,000 ventilators," he said, alluding to a request by Gov.
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So Germany has enough ventilators and can — by placing orders with domestic medical supply companies — produce more.
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California received 170 ventilators from the federal stockpile to help battle the coronavirus outbreak in the state.
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We need bold action, we need the ventilators and we need protective equipment for health care workers.
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Their bill calls for producing 500 million masks, as well as 200,85033 ventilators and other key supplies.
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Anticipated shortage of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and mechanical ventilators in the United States is urgent.
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But there might not be enough ventilators to meet that need if the outbreak becomes too widespread.
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"The shortages of resources is becoming dire even outside of the news reporting of ventilators," says Bilazarian.
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One-third of patients over age 22015 die in the hospital after they are put on ventilators.
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That may take days or even a week, often with patients on ventilators, getting multiple blood transfusions.
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Its report estimated that a severe influenza pandemic would require mechanical ventilators for 250,223 critically ill people.
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Think CT scanners sent off to Cambodia, ventilators shipped to India and defibrillators packed off to Mexico.
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In its first year in operation, the research agency considered how to expand the number of ventilators.
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In its first year in operation, the research agency considered how to expand the number of ventilators.
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"If somehow ventilators came from heaven like manna, that's not going to fix the problem," he said.
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Governments are already preparing for what a shortage of ventilators could do to their health care systems.
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Estimates on what parts or pieces of ventilators break, or might break, assuming an increased duty cycle.
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She said she's not sure if she'd use the technique herself if she ran out of ventilators.
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A few years earlier, the same group modeled how many ventilators would be needed in unusual circumstances.
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They're also not mobile, and local outbreaks will quickly surpass the numbers of ventilators and respiratory therapists.
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There's currently good indication that the U.S. doesn't have enough ventilators to cater to all infected persons.
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"If we don't get a supply of ventilators quickly, our public hospital system, literally after about a week or so, we will not have enough ventilators to keep people alive who could live through this crisis and could be saved," de Blasio said on CNN's "New Day" Monday.
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"A 2015 study by researchers from the Department of Health and Human Services and Center for Disease Control and Prevention modeled the need for ventilators during an influenza outbreak, calculating that "an additional 7000 to 11,0003 ventilators will be needed, averting a pandemic total of 35,000 to 55,2000 deaths.
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As health care systems across the world strain under the weight of COVID-19 patients flooding their hospitals and the critical demand for ventilators remains on the rise, Klink told ProPublica that Philips aims to produce to 4,000 ventilators of all types every week in the US by October.
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It's important to prepare hospital beds, ventilators to help people breathe, and public health workers to trace close contactsPrepping "hundreds" of hospital beds and ventilators and enlisting thousands of public-health workers are some of the most crucial "really practical things you can do to be ready," Aylward said.
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Now, PHI executive director Brian Tiburzi says he doesn't know anyone alive still using the negative-pressure ventilators.
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Given MRI machines and ventilators, they run software that is connected to networks and, therefore, vulnerable to attack.
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It currently has six children on ventilators, and already must hold fundraisers to make up for Medicaid underfunding.
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Johns Hopkins ordered extra ventilators weeks ago, as staff began to see the virus spreading across the world.
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Hospitals have been using the virus's delayed arrival to track down extra ventilators and create emergency staffing schedules.
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Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois called out the federal government over the state's shortage of masks and ventilators.
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Betsy McCaughey, a Republican — saying that in 2015 the state declined the option to buy thousands of ventilators.
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If there are ventilators being produced anywhere in the country, we need to get them to New York.
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The American Hospital Association has estimated that 960,000 people will need ventilators over the course of the pandemic.
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There are questions about if the country has enough beds and ventilators to treat those who are admitted.
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The President told governors yesterday to try to obtain life-saving medical equipment, like respirators and ventilators, themselves.
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He said Thursday that the city needs 2000 million N240 masks, 2000 million surgical masks and 15,000 ventilators.
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Trump announced that Ford and General Motors were making ventilators "right now," though manufacturing had not actually started.
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To keep older ventilators and other crucial medical devices functioning, technicians need to be able to repair them.
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There's just one problem: The companies actually making medical ventilators today don't think he can pull it off.
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The head of the National Health Service said on Tuesday that Britain had 8,175 ventilators in the country.
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Elon Musk said on Twitter his factories are "working on ventilators" for a possible shortage caused by coronavirus.
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Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk has also said on Twitter that his company could make ventilators if needed.
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He added that a private company was now chipping in 3D printing abilities to manufacture valves for ventilators.
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So they told me I'm competing against the federal government to get ventilators from the state of Illinois.
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Wednesday, the state had 22,183 ventilators in hospitals and another 218,212 on the way from the federal government.
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"There is no other way for us to get these ventilators," Cuomo said at his daily press conference.
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Andrew Cuomo days ago said his state needed another 123,000 ventilators on top of the 7,000 it had.
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"...frankly, I think that would be a good place to build the ventilators, but we'll see," Trump said.
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On Friday afternoon, Trump issued a memorandum requiring General Motors to produce ventilators through the Defense Production Act.
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For its part, Ford has announced it is working with GE Healthcare to increase production of GE's ventilators.
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We need ventilators to sustain the lives of thousands of gravely ill patients who are already overwhelming hospitals.
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We need ventilators to sustain the lives of thousands of gravely ill patients who are already overwhelming hospitals.
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But Musk has said he plans to make the ventilators at Tesla's New York factory, not in California.
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But Musk has said he plans to make the ventilators at Tesla's New York factory, not in California.
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Among the needs, the mayor said, are three million N95 masks, 50 million surgical masks and 240,223 ventilators.
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Or take the last sack of flour at a small supermarket, or one of those precious upstate ventilators?
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He chastised the Trump administration for sending too few ventilators and drew an instant rebuke from the president.
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The system has received 100 more ventilators from its supplier and is expecting hundreds more, Dr. Katz said.
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However, the U.S. is facing shortages of tests, hospital beds and equipment like ventilators, swabs and face masks.
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GM is working with Ventec Life Systems to help increase production of respiratory care products such as ventilators.
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Andrew Cuomo pleaded with the federal government to release 13.83,000 ventilators from the national stockpile to the state.
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Royal Philips N.V., told ProPublica it does not even plan to begin production of the ventilators this year.
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Philips claimed they are within their rights to produce commercial ventilators first — and a spokesperson for HHS agreed.
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Civilian Pentagon officials had repeatedly said they are making ventilators and five million N-95 respirator masks available.
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Levine said Ballad Health ordered more ventilators, but estimates they will take eight to 10 weeks to arrive.
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European countries, dealing with their own coronavirus crises and shortages, are reportedly prohibiting companies from exporting ventilators abroad.
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Iranian health workers have also reported difficulties in receiving masks, ventilators, and other protective gear to treat patients.
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The Pentagon is also providing up to 2,000 deployable ventilators and making 14 certified coronavirus testing facilities available.
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In particular, intensive care units, which treat the sickest patients, could face shortages of key equipment like ventilators.
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Some worry about the number of respirators and ventilators both at hospitals and in a national strategic stockpile.
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"We desperately needed the Defense Production Act invoked to ensure the production of life-saving ventilators," Cuomo said.
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Between the lines: The US has finite medical resources, including personnel as well as medical supplies like ventilators.
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Cuomo said the state needs as many as 140,000 hospital beds, including 30,000 ICU beds and 40,000 ventilators.
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GM confirmed that it would build ventilators at a factory in Indiana, in partnership with Ventec Life Systems.
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The head of the National Health Service said on Tuesday that Britain had 8,175 ventilators in the country.
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Cuomo also said 30,000 ventilators were needed for patients who cannot breathe; the federal government is sending 4,000.
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General Motors and Ford won't be able to build ventilators fast enough to help New York state, Gov.
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Unlike ventilators, which deliver oxygen through tubes, the CPAPs push air into the lungs through a face mask.
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At the peak of the outbreak, New York state estimates it will need roughly 40,000 ventilators, Cuomo said.
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A shortage of ventilators, personal protective equipment and never-ending work is the reality many are currently facing.
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The more "basic" ventilators are "well-suited to address the urgent needs during the COVID crisis," Westrick said.
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Inslee said that he spoke to Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk, who offered help in getting ventilators.
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At our large, 4,000-bed New York City hospital, we have 500 ventilators and 250 on backup reserve.
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"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators," he said, a reference to New York, where Gov.
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Dr. Mahshid Abir, an emergency physician at University of Michigan, said most ventilators require specialized training to operate.
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Some ventilators sent to New York hospitals from the national stockpile are arriving damaged or with missing parts.
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Gavin Newsom reported similar issues with ventilators in Los Angeles that had to be sent out for repairs.
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Trump and Cuomo have clashed over the federal government's inability to get New York up to 30,000 ventilators.
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Ford will make 50,000 ventilators in 100 days, starting April 20, to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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Cities including San Francisco have requested more hospital beds and ventilators to accommodate the expected spike in patients.
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The average time that a COVID-19 patient, however, spends on ventilators is between 11 and 21 days.
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The country's government is scrambling to get hold of protective equipment like masks, scrubs and gloves, and ventilators.
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The current discussion of using the DPA is focused on medical supplies, masks, personal protective equipment and ventilators.
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Individual air purifiers and ventilators, at $22020,000 to $50,000 each, will require tens of additional billions of dollars.
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Hard to say which will run out first—staffing, physical beds, ventilators, or other life support devices, e.g.
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On March 18, Musk said Tesla would join General Motors and Ford in offering to make hospital ventilators.
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In normal circumstances, 23,240 ventilators are more than enough for the ICUs and operating rooms that use them.
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No. There are several factors preventing, say, an electric car factory from instantly switching over to making ventilators.
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In areas like Bergamo, there are not enough beds and ventilators to treat everyone who needs intensive care.
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He installed four faux ventilators in the bedroom ceilings there, but the Manor House remained his observational headquarters.
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READ: The U.S. has a classified stockpile of ventilators and masks, but it won't save us from coronavirus.
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White House Economic advisor Larry Kudlow told Fox News earlier Wednesday that GM has offered to build ventilators.
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The country's hospitals also don't have enough ventilators, which help people breathe when they can't on their own.
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Musk said given Tesla's history of manufacturing "sophisticated HVAC systems," making ventilators should be no problem at all.
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It's very possible that many of the ventilators are being used right now for patients with other illnesses.
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While talks have not been called off, administration officials are weighing how long it would take to produce the thousands of ventilators and whether it would be worth the substantial cost to make the ventilators, given they may not be delivered for some time when the need might be different.
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"Last week, after Newsom said he had spoken with a "well-known entrepreneur" about ventilators, Musk hinted that plans for production were already underway at Tesla factories, tweeting: "We're working on ventilators, even though I think there will not be a shortage by the time we can make enough to matter.
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The governor emphasized the difficulty of obtaining ventilators worldwide because of the high demand and their difficulty to manufacture, and stressed that simply accepting volunteered help from companies willing to produce ventilators on the side wasn't enough, as the lag time between when they were completed would be multiple weeks.
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They eventually want to transfer him to New Jersey, where a religious exemption allows patients to remain on ventilators.
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They included several premature babies, whom nurses had tried to save by hand-pumping ventilators for hours on end.
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And 12 children continue to depend on generators and batteries to keep ventilators running at San Jorge Children's Hospital.
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Many of those affected are young adults and teenagers, some of which are in intensive care and on ventilators.
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It has agreed to send masks, ventilators, respirators and test kits to Italy as part of an aid package.
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"960,000 [sickened patients] would require ventilatory support," a study forecasted, though that doesn't mean they'll all need ventilators simultaneously.
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A treatment option could shorten hospital stays, free up scarce ventilators, and ultimately improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients.
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Palmer: One of the other issues that has really come up clearly is this lack of supplies — ventilators, masks.
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"All options are on the table on how GM can help Ventec build more ventilators," a GM spokesperson said.
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State governments around the country are requesting more supplies from masks to ventilators to keep up with the cases.
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"It is more than we can currently provide," said Kathrin Elsner, team leader of MarCom Ventilators at Hamilton Medical.
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He said he wants to purchase as many as 500 ventilators, which can cost $20,000 to $40,000 a machine.
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In this case, it could speed the production of badly needed ventilators, masks and other supplies for hospital workers.
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More medical supplies needed, Cuomo says Cuomo also stressed that more medical supplies, hospital beds and ventilators are needed.
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And this doesn't even cover the potential shortages in equipment needed to treat coronavirus patients, including respirators and ventilators.
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The state has procured 7,000 ventilators, including 400 sent by the federal government; Cuomo says the state needs 30,000.
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Hospitals are quickly overwhelmed — which means the virus becomes more lethal, as people who need ventilators can't get them.
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"Non-Covid patients are on ventilators two, three, or four days," Cuomo said in his March 27 press briefing.
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Nationally, several manufacturers in the auto industry have converted to making ventilators, but the progress has not been adequate.
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"Splitting ventilators is really a last-ditch effort," says Todd Goldstein, Northwell Health's director of 3D design and innovation.
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To meet the demand for ventilators and spare parts, groups are gathering online to share recipes for DIY solutions.
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In the face of a projected national shortage, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to manufacture life-saving ventilators.
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Ventilators in general mechanically pump breathable air into the lungs of patients who have trouble breathing on their own.
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"If we don't get more ventilators in the next 10 days, people will die," de Blasio said on CNN.
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"We're using the act," Trump said, saying that the DPA was spurring the production of ventilators, masks, and respirators.
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He may be right, but if time is of the essence with producing ventilators ... there's no time to argue.
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The more complex items on the list include metered dose inhalers, ventilators, elastomeric respirators and powered air purifying respirators.
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According to HHS, a severe influenza pandemic like the one in 1918 would require 750,000 ventilators to treat victims.
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Trump invoked the act on Friday to require General Motors to produce more ventilators to deal with increased hospitalizations.
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The hospitals, one to each city, will have 2250 ventilators each, General Milley told reporters during a telephone briefing.
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New York State, with 30,811 confirmed cases, projects that it will need 12,000 ventilators before the crisis is past.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday evening that the federal government was sending the city 400 desperately needed ventilators.
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We're covering a bleak coronavirus milestone in Europe, the desperate search for ventilators and a Manhattan without live music.
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Stacks of ventilators wouldn't do the public any good if there were no health care workers to operate them.
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A small medical supply company in Staten Island told ProPublica that it bought 50 ventilators from Philips in March.
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Meanwhile, a regional government purchased 10 Trilogy Evo ventilators from a Spanish medical supply company for about $11,000 each.
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In the case of ventilators, immediate is defined as requirements necessary to sustain life within a 72-hour window.
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In normal circumstances, many patients on ventilators in America have only a very small chance of survival, Magnus explained.
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Medical providers are struggling to get enough protective equipment like masks, and numbers of ventilators are limited as well.
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If the case count continues to escalate, doctors do not expect to have enough ventilators for every sick patient.
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Animal hospitals and veterinary schools are sending critically needed ventilators to hospitals facing supply shortages amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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EG: Well, I would have had a national stockpile, and I would've had ventilators, masks, kept domestic manufacturing alive.
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That could be risky for patients since ventilators are usually built to help just one person at a time.
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He also demanded that Ford produce ventilators, which could be in short supply as hospitals are deluged with patients.
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The other two were both in stable condition, but still needed to be on ventilators in a hospital setting.
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Tesla had bought hospital ventilators in China and shipped them to the United States, Musk had said on Tuesday.
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We need respirators, we need ventilators, and that is a big thing because it's a complex piece of equipment.
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By then, it may be at risk of running short on ventilators, the equipment used to help patients breathe.
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De Blasio thanked President Donald Trump for expediting 400 ventilators to the city and said more must be done.
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He said New York City is still desperately short on medical equipment and needs some 15,000 ventilators in total.
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The state has about 3,000 to 4,000 ventilators on hand and has purchased about 7,3933 more, he previously said.
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Trump suggested he would invoke the Defense Production Act to force the companies to produce needed equipment like ventilators.
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If they don't have the ventilators and they don't have the equipment they need, that fatality rate could rise.
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Unlike ventilators, which deliver oxygen through closed tubes, the CPAPs push air into the lungs through a face mask.
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The state currently has about 3,000 to 4,000 ventilators on hand and has purchased about 7,000 more, he added.
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The company said it is working "around the clock" to increase production of ventilators through its partnership with Ford.
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Conversations with unspecified individuals have also led the president to accuse doctors and hospitals of "hoarding" supplies and ventilators.
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That's a good step, but there appears to be no firm plan other than repurposing ventilators from surgery centers.
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Some government officials expressed concern about the possibility of ordering too many ventilators, leaving them with an expensive surplus.
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Administration officials said Thursday that they were struggling to understand just how many ventilators the new venture could make.
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Still, Democrats have continued to hammer the administration for not immediately doing more to produce ventilators and protective equipment.
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Pence said part of those efforts involve a push to "free up other ventilators" in use in the system.
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A number of them have been admitted to the intensive care unit and placed on ventilators, as Tryston was.
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It has one hospital with 14 beds, three ventilators, and a shortage of doctors, according to the hospital's CEO.
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Ford is looking at its supply chain to locate parts that General Electric could use to increase ventilators manufacturing.
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Since the outbreak, 927 people have been hospitalized and 336 put on ventilators, according to the state's health department.
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Tesla had bought hospital ventilators in China and shipped them to the United States, Musk had said on Tuesday.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been sounding the alarm about an expected shortage of hospital beds and ventilators.
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"We could only bid for 500 ventilators, and we have now received confirmation that we will deliver," he added.
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There are about 35 different projects underway, including some to manufacture protective face shields and design make-do ventilators.
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Dr. Schuchat said some patients are on ventilators and therefore are unable to tell investigators what substances they vaped.
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It's better positioned than most countries, according to experts, though there could be shortages of ventilators and protective equipment.
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In addition to treating these symptoms with oxygen therapy, ventilators, and antibiotics, doctors there have also resorted to experimentation.
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Patients have experienced shortness of breath, chest pains, and even nausea, and some sufferers have been put on ventilators.
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Professional respiratory therapists working for respiratory home care companies set up, electronically monitor, and adjust home ventilators, as required.
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He could use the federal law to force factories to produce needed supplies to fight the pandemic, like ventilators.
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On Thursday, however, Musk tweeted that his factories were working on producing ventilators in the case of a shortage.
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Trump's comments Friday suggested that his stance had taken a turn with regards to the ventilators since Thursday night, when the President told Sean Hannity on Fox News that he was "getting along" with Cuomo but slammed the governor for wanting tens of thousands of ventilators, which the President doubts are necessary.
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The federal government has contributed hundreds of thousands of masks, gloves and gowns and 4,400 ventilators to the state, but New York still needs 20 million N95 masks, 30 million surgical masks, 45 million exam gloves, 20 million gowns and coveralls, and 30,000 ventilators, according to a chart displayed at the news conference.
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"I think it will be faster to throw a couple ventilators on a truck and drive them to a hospital than wait for new ones to arrive," said Dr. Adam Rubinstein, a plastic surgeon in Miami who has been compiling a list of doctors willing to loan out their ventilators in a pinch.
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The children are put on oxygen or ventilators to help their breathing and are typically released after a few days.
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"It was difficult for us to get in there too because they also don't take people on ventilators," he says.
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They can become deadly if they manifest as bloodstream or lung infections, especially in people with pneumonia or on ventilators.
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Taking ventilators from patients who did not appear to be improving was "the single most contentious issue," Dr. Toner said.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his company is making ventilators and expects to have over 1,200 to distribute this week.
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"You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators," an angry Cuomo demanded.
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"Ventec will leverage GM's logistics, purchasing and manufacturing expertise to build more of their critically important ventilators," the statement reads.
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Andrew Cuomo (D), who said the state needs 30,000 ventilators to meet the demands for the expected number of patients.
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Local hospitals and health officials warned that a flare-up could lead to a run on hospital beds and ventilators.
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A shortage of ventilators has become a growing concern as the number of reported infections increase across the United States.
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"It is more than we can currently provide," said Kathrin Elsner, team leader of MarCom Ventilators at Hamilton Medical Inc.
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And the federal government is not distributing ventilators to the state of Illinois, so I'm literally working against a competitor.
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Beyond the lack of testing, experts often cite a shortage of medical equipment, such as ventilators, masks, gloves, and goggles.
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But, like elsewhere, New York City hospitals face a shortage of medical gear and critical equipment like ventilators and respirators.
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Ford also committed C$300 million to boost the province's healthcare system, including to buy more protective gear and ventilators.
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Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, also pledged to produce ventilators in case of a shortage on Twitter.
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The company also did not provide any information about how Musk's companies could help in the production of more ventilators.
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The federal government promised to ship 4,000 additional ventilators this week, although this is still woefully short of what's needed.
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As a nation, we face a limited supply of hospital beds, masks and ventilators -- not to mention doctors and nurses.
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" Trump also said at the briefing that New York had been unaware of thousands of ventilators sitting in "a warehouse.
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Governors have requested ventilators, fearing shortages of the lifesaving devices in hospital systems dealing with an influx of coronavirus patients.
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Still, the company will only be able to manufacture ventilators by the hundreds — and doctors need them by the thousands.
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On Thursday, he insisted governors like Andrew Cuomo of New York didn't need all the ventilators they've pleaded for anyway.
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"We have enough supplies to get to a week from today, with the exception of ventilators," de Blasio said Sunday.
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And we're going to need thousands of ventilators... We have got a number of hospitals that are already at capacity.
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"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators," Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity in an interview last week.
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In the United States, President Trump told state governors on March 16 that they should find respirators and ventilators themselves.
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In the United States, President Trump told state governors on March 16 that they should find respirators and ventilators themselves.
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The state's voters are also being asked to approve sales tax exemptions for medical equipment like oxygen tanks and ventilators.
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In other news: The U.S. has an estimated 160,000 to 53,000 ventilators, but could eventually need up to a million.
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The American position stands in contrast to that of China, which is sending ventilators, masks and testing kits to Europe.
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The president had previously played down states' needs for more ventilators, and G.M. had already committed to producing the equipment.
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An article on Monday about President Trump's struggle to ramp up the production of ventilators referred incorrectly to General Motors.
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He is now working with OpenSource Ventilator Ireland, a volunteer organization focused on developing low-cost and open-source ventilators.
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"Now that we see front-line providers that are on ventilators, it is really driving it home," Dr. Anderson said.
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"We don't have specific timelines and numbers related to the design and the release of the new ventilators," he said.
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With the coronavirus rapidly spreading, hospitals could soon be stretched thin on beds, staffing and equipment like ventilators and respirators.
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Supplies are running low, particularly when it comes to ventilators — a growing necessity as Covid-19, a respiratory virus, spreads.
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The New York Times reports that hospitals are having trouble procuring enough ventilators to match the influx of new patients.
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That helps prevent overloading the health care system, with its limited number of doctors, nurses, beds, and equipment like ventilators.
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Some hospitals could run out of ventilators and intensive care unit beds as early as mid-April, the report projected.
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The limited availability of ventilators has prompted Cuomo to propose using one ventilator for two patients if things get worse.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tesla's New York Gigafactory will reopen and start producing ventilators 'as soon as humanly possible.
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The current shortage supply of masks, gowns, and ventilators have intensified calls for Trump to use the Defense Production Act.
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Billions more will provide protective equipment for medical workers, ventilators for patients, testing supplies and new construction to house patients.
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Ventec Life Systems and General Motors are partnering to build VOCSN critical care ventilators at GM's Kokomo, Indiana, manufacturing facility.
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The doctor said he was trying to wait as long as possible before putting patients on ventilators to conserve equipment.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump used the Defense Production Act to direct General Motors to "prioritize federal contracts" for ventilators.
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He also said Medtronic is looking to partner up with other companies to produce ventilators at their facilities as well.
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UK health minister Matt Hancock said earlier on Friday that the scramble to produce thousands of ventilators was achieving results.
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The need for ventilators is urgent as cases of COVID-19 pop up with increasing frequency as widespread testing begins.
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There are about 160,000 ventilators in the United States and another 213,700 in the National Strategic Supply, the NYT reported.
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Healthcare workers lack masks, other protective equipment, and, most crucially, ventilators needed to handle rapidly expanding numbers of critical cases.
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The companies expect production to begin in three weeks and the first ventilators to ship before the end of April.
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The companies expect production to begin in three weeks and the first ventilators to ship before the end of April.
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Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak said on CNBC on Wednesday that some of his company's ventilators would be made by Tesla.
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Some hospitals have started to buckle under a flood of patients, asking for critical supplies such as masks and ventilators.
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The tie-up between the companies could be a precursor for a deal with the U.S. government to produce ventilators.
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Hospitals around the country have been wrestling with shortages of PPE, beds, and ventilators amid mounting numbers of infected patients.
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Even if we got an indefinite number of ventilators, we don't have an unlimited number of people to operate them.
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Wouldn't European solidarity mean Germany deliver at least some of the new ventilators to countries that currently need them most?
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He has been open in seeking out the equipment desperately needed by health care providers, like face masks and ventilators.
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Ford noted that this new effort comes in addition to Ford's effort to boost production of GE Healthcare's existing ventilators.
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Louisiana, like the rest of the country, is also in desperate need of ventilators, according to the Department of Health.
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By the end of the first week in April, officials' "first real issue is going to be ventilators," Edwards said.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) begged the federal government to send 30,000 ventilators to his state during a press conference on Tuesday.
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There are about 2628,28503 ventilators in that stockpile, but Cuomo said the administration has only sent 22020 to New York.
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General Motors Co has also partnered with medical equipment maker Ventec and is building ventilators at its plant in Indiana.
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Past experience with large-scale disasters has helped the energy sector keep the lights—and ventilators—on during the pandemic.
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And that's not even going back to the fact that we don't have any ventilators to put these patients on.
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The medical gear maker said that the German government was buying 10,53 ventilators for respiratory care, its largest order ever.
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Ford also committed C$300 million to boost the province's healthcare system, including to buy more protective gear and ventilators.
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"My assumption is not that we'd be taking patients off ventilators, but that we'd be transferring patients elsewhere," he said.
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Officials have also stockpiled ventilators, a necessity for severe cases of this coronavirus, which causes high fever and respiratory problems.
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The children depend on ventilators to survive, according to Domingo Cruz Vivaldi, executive director of the San Jorge Children's Hospital.
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For all the good they've done, mechanical ventilators have left us with ethical dilemmas that neurotechnologies are unlikely to resolve.
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Some patients have gotten seriously ill, even winding up in intensive care units on oxygen support through ventilators or intubation.
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Another recent model suggested that by early May, some hospitals could have up to 75 people on ventilators every day.
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He pushed for the government to use emergency authority to spur increased production of supplies such as masks and ventilators.
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The U.S. healthcare system has an estimated 160,133 ventilators now, with an additional 12,000 or so in secret federal stockpile.
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As cases mount daily, American health professionals are sounding the alarm—there may not be enough ventilators to go around.
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At any given time, an estimated 85% of non-stockpile ventilators are already in use for other acute-care patients.
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The New Health Care We don't have enough ventilators and I.C.U. beds if there's a significant surge of new cases.
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"Right now, in New York specifically, the rate of the curve suggests that in 45 days we could have up to an input of people who need 110,000 beds that compares to our current capacity of 53,000 beds, 37,000 ICU units, ventilators, which compares to a capacity currently of 3,000 ventilators," he said Wednesday.
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Part of the reason why FEMA balked at ordering ventilators from GM/Ventec, the Times said (and Trump seemed to confirm this in a subsequent tweet) was that the number of ventilators it said it could produce for that money steadily shrank — from an initial run of 20,000 down to 7,500, or even 5,000.
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Mindray, a devices firm with $2000bn in global sales, is developing new technologies for ventilators, digital operating rooms and surgical robots.
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The country has been desperate for more beds, face masks and ventilators to deal with the high volume of coronavirus patients.
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Even if the US increased the supply of ventilators, there may not be enough experts that can treat patients with them.
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The ventilators are particularly important for COVID-19 patients, who can experience breathing difficulties as a symptom of the respiratory illness.
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Ventilators are crucial to treating patients with severe cases of COVID-19, as they ensure the lungs can continue to work.
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The state is also looking to bring in additional ventilators, hand sanitizer, gowns, gloves, face masks and other person protective equipment.
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China's industrial equipment department said it had produced more than 15,000 ventilators and was setting up "accelerated channels" to import more.
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And there might be interruptions in the supply chain of the oxygen-rich gas that ventilators use to keep people alive.
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State and local officials are making urgent efforts to expand hospital capacity: adding more hospital beds, pleading for more ventilators. Gov.
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We have been keeping patients on ventilators for about 23 days before we decrease ventilator support in a process called 'weaning'.
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Problem is ... health experts are already clear ... there WILL be a shortage of ventilators for those seriously infected with the coronavirus.
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Ventilators assist patients who lose lung function — a key complication of severe COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus.
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Cuomo pitches 'rolling deployment' to address needs Still, needed supplies, ventilators, hospital beds and personnel remain in short supply, Cuomo said.
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A second UK firm, Gtech, is also working to produce ventilators and has submitted two examples to the government for assessment.
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Dyson -- a company best known for hand dryers and vacuum cleaners -- is helping to provide the UK government with 10,000 ventilators.
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Cuomo said Wednesday that New York has 4,000 ventilators in the hospital system and the federal government has sent another 4,000.
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" "That ignores reality," he said, adding, "If there are 10 people and 3 ventilators, a decision is going to get made.
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Its goal is to ramp up output of top-of-the-line ventilators to 500 per week, a five-fold increase.
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We're going to need at least several hundred more ventilators very quickly," de Blasio said on CNN's "State of the Union.
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There are about 210,225 ventilators in U.S. hospitals, with another 215,103 in a stockpile the federal government keeps for national emergencies.
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Nearly 210 U.S. cities reported a dire need for face masks, ventilators and other emergency equipment vital to fighting the virus.
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Michael, about half an hour or so before Mike Pence started this town hall — You have 21,2200 ventilators in the stockpile.
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The federal government ordered 10,000 ventilators from a health tech giant — but not a single one is in the national stockpile.
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"States cannot build more hospitals, acquire ventilators or modify facilities quickly enough," Cuomo wrote in a New York Times op-ed.
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State officials are also facing a shortage of masks and ventilators, and have been asking Washington for help getting the supplies.
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Russia said it sent medical equipment including 600 ventilators, military virologists, and epidemiologists, to Italy to help with its coronavirus outbreak.
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State officials project they'll need 30,000 to 40,000 ventilators, 140,000 extra hospital beds, and 30,000 intensive-care-unit beds, Cuomo said.
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Ventilators deliver oxygen to the lungs through a tube and remove carbon dioxide when patients aren't able to breathe by themselves.
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Around 6,500 of those cases would need ICU beds, Ainsworth wrote, but Alabama only has a bit more than 1,300 ventilators.
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In an interview with Fox New's Sean Hannity, the president said he doubted states need the number of ventilators they're requesting.
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The Spanish army has asked NATO for ventilators, protective gear and testing kits, Armed Forces Chief Miguel Villarroya said on Wednesday.
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The spokesman said the government had asked businesses to give them a progress report on their efforts to manufacture the ventilators.
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Musk has recently discussed the possibility of producing ventilators in his Tesla factory on Twitter in the event of a shortage.
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Even if they don't die in the hospital, they can jeopardize others by taking up beds and ventilators in short supply.
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Ford's Rawsonville Components Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, will be able to produce 30,000 ventilators a month after early July, officials said.
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The devices are less complex than GE ventilators Ford previously said it would assist the company in producing at other facilities.
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GM has said it plans to ramp up to a manufacturing capacity of more than 10,000 critical care ventilators per month.
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Trump criticized GM and CEO Mary Barra in a tweet on Friday, saying the company wanted "top dollar" for making ventilators.
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Like other hospitals, Elmhurst has come perilously close to running out of ventilators several times; other hospitals have replenished its supply.
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After weeks of costly hesitation, President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Friday to require General Motors to produce ventilators.
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Mr. Trump took issue on Tuesday with the governor's comments about not receiving enough ventilators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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In Washington state, a request has been made to a national stockpile of medical equipment to release more ventilators, said Pfarr.
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We've got an urgent health crisis and critical shortages of essential medical equipment, particularly ventilators, so buying some time makes sense.
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Ventilators are in such short supply in New York that the governor has proposed using "one ventilator for two patients."Dr.
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Today, Northwell received a large number of functioning ventilators and N95 respirators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), he added.
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Gavin Newsom announced that Los Angeles received 170 broken ventilators from the stockpile and had to ship them out for repair.
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They're triaging a flood of coronavirus patients every day, intubating patients in their 20s and 30s, and running low on ventilators.
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According to Newsom, the broken ventilators from the Trump administration will be fixed and sent back to Los Angeles by Monday.
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The provision comes in response to healthcare workers being short on masks, ventilators, and swabs that help test for the virus.
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Hospitals with limited intensive care facilities are re-tooling recovery or emergency rooms by installing ventilators sometimes stripped from operating theatres.
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We are making life-or-death decisions not based on research, data and evidence...but based on a lack of ventilators.
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The guidelines suggest that hospitals focus on providing ventilators to the patients who are most likely to survive with ventilator therapy.
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But it's not certain that anyone will produce enough ventilators or make them soon enough to fill the demand in time.
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In her daily job, she connects ventilators and breathing tubes, just like the ones that helped her breathe as a baby.
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With I.C.U. beds scarce, patients on ventilators are left in ordinary wards, and those recovering from surgery often languish in corridors.
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Traditionally, patients on ventilators are not displaced for other patients, and later arriving patients can be turned away in a shortage.
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The children in the New Jersey outbreak were immunocompromised and some required ventilators for breathing assistance before they got sick with adenovirus.
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These types of devices include drug infusion pumps, surgical and anesthesia devices, ventilators, external defibrillators, patient monitors and laboratory and analysis equipment.
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Like the teen, some had such difficulty breathing they were placed in medically-induced comas with ventilators to support their damaged lungs.
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Save the Children, the international charity, said children were "dying on the floors of hospitals" for lack of ventilators, anesthetics and antibiotics.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric car maker's Gigafactory facility in New York will soon be reopening to begin producing ventilators.
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"We must put more testing, more protective equipment and more ventilators into the hands of our front-line workers immediately," she added.
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In these times we will likely also see many patients who will need to be put on ventilators because of the virus.
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In the Chinese city of Wuhan, the source of the COVID-19 outbreak, patients have died because hospitals didn't have enough ventilators.
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Health experts also say there is a serious need for more respirators and ventilators to deal with the influx of coronavirus patients.
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He said he wants to purchase as many as 500 ventilators, which can cost as much as $20,000 to $40,000 a machine.
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" New York Mayor Bill de Blasio warned that if his city did not get more ventilators within 10 days "people will die.
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Founded in Lübeck, Germany, Dräger, which employs 13,000 people spread across 190 countries, manufactures and sells multiple different types of medical ventilators.
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Instead, he advocated for proposals that would expand the availability of essential medical supplies for health care workers, like masks and ventilators.
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Countries around the world have raised concerns about potential shortages of the ventilators needed to treat critically ill patients suffering from coronavirus.
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford committed C$300 million to boost the province's healthcare system, including to buy more protective gear and ventilators.
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Minutes after promising that his factories would make ventilators "if there's a shortage," Musk then questioned whether there is a ventilator shortage.
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He later offered to make ventilators, which are in dire need as America combats the virus, but has since hedged that offer.
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"Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves," Trump told governors during a phone call, The New York Times reported.
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"If we don't get more ventilators in the next 10 days, people will die," de Blasio told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Sunday.
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Tuesday Ford announced it would join with 3M and General Electric to help make needed ventilators to help hospitals treat coronavirus patients.
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The ventilators are the "difference between life and death for thousands of New Yorkers," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
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But as his top aides are in ongoing talks about how to procure more ventilators, Trump is downplaying the need for them.
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"I don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators," Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity Thursday night, after New York Gov.
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J.B. Pritzker are among the state leaders who have been pressing the federal government to send them more ventilators in recent weeks.
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Dire conditions Edwards has said hospitals in the New Orleans area could run out of bed space and ventilators by early April.
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Ventilators can help some of the most seriously ill COVID-19 patients who start losing the ability to breathe on their own.
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Doing so, proponents argued, would alleviate the concerns of state governors, such as New York's Cuomo, who are desperate for new ventilators.
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We are going to need a reenforcement by Sunday, April 5th in all categories, especially ventilators but in other areas as well.
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The administration will also facilitate the production or acquisition of "100,000 additional units" of ventilators over a 100-day period, Trump said.
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We are going to need a reinforcement by Sunday, April 5, in all categories, especially ventilators, but in other areas as well.
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Both have halted North American car production but are repurposing plants and workers to manufacture emergency batches of ventilators to undersupplied hospitals.
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President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, a power dating back to the Korean War, to compel General Motors to manufacture ventilators.
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Worried about a medical condition that predisposes her to pneumonia, she checked the number of ventilators available at the hospital there: 12.
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New York State is already reporting that patients with severe cases are staying on ventilators much longer than those with pneumonia might.
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The state has three stockpiles of medical supplies, including millions of masks and gloves, as well as more sophisticated equipment like ventilators.
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"The reality is, there is absolutely not enough," said the chief executive of Hamilton Medical, a Switzerland-based firm that manufactures ventilators.
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Video: A doctor at that hospital, which is struggling to get by with a few dozen ventilators, offered a rare look inside.
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John Bel Edwards has warned that hospitals in and around New Orleans could run out of ventilators as early as this weekend.
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"We're gathering them in the stockpile so that when we need them they will be there," Mr. Cuomo said of the ventilators.
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We had a pretty good idea of how many hospital beds we would need, how many ICU beds, and how many ventilators.
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GM said Friday that it is working with Ventec Life Systems to help increase production of respiratory care products such as ventilators.
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Will Trump use the Defense Production Act to require additional companies to manufacture or expedite essential items such as ventilators and masks?
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Two, it's not "gotcha" journalism to ask the President why he said what he said last Friday about governors and ventilators. 23.
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GERMAN ECONOMY MINISTRY SPOKESMAN SAYS , ASKED WHETHER EXPORTS OF VENTILATORS WILL BE RESTRICTED, GERMAN GOVT, OTHER STATES DISCUSSING RESTRICTIONS ON MEDICAL EXPORTS
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Refsland said that his company produces around 1,000 ventilators annually, and that it would be at least eight months to increase production.
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There's a limited supply of ventilators in the USMedical supply shortages for gear like masks have already started to hit US hospitals.
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For some, it might be ventilators, but for others, it could be limits to hospital beds or staff to care for patients.
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He wrote that he had spent two weeks complaining to his son-in-law about the lack of equipment, testing and ventilators.
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Health officials are now concerned that, if the spread continues, there will be insufficient hospital beds and ventilators for the seriously ill.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) should be buying the ventilators his state needs to treat coronavirus patients rather than relying on the federal government.
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And sourcing sorely needed hospital supplies and equipment like ventilators through a China-centric supply chain could immediately help save American lives.
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Ventilators move breathable air into and out of a coronavirus patient's lungs, and can save the lives of people in pulmonary distress.
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President Donald Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he doesn't think places need 30,000 additional ventilators to treat COVID-19 patients.
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Britain currently has about 8,000 ventilators with another 8,000 on order to come into the health system in a week or so.
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LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) - The British government has ordered 10,000 ventilators designed by vacuum cleaner company Dyson, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
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For crises like these, it turns out, we keep in strategic reserve not only masks and ventilators, but a supply of progressivism.
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Elon Musk tweeted Friday that Tesla and SpaceX employees are "working on ventilators" even though he doesn't believe they will be needed.
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Elon Musk tweeted Friday that Tesla and SpaceX employees are "working on ventilators" even though he doesn't believe they will be needed.
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Ventilators are a critical piece of medical equipment for patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by coronavirus.
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Compounding this is a shortage of medicine and medical equipment including ventilators, testing kits and general respiratory equipment to combat the contagion.
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The announcement adds to Ford's efforts to assist in increasing health care supplies amid the pandemic, including ventilators, respirators and face masks.
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He said that the 170 broken ventilators would be shipped to Bloom Energy in Sunnyvale to be fixed and deployed to hospitals.
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"Before I even was able to get a word out of him, he said, 'We need ventilators,'" Trump recalled a day later.
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The state has asked the federal government for supplies, including two million masks, 50,000 small bottles of hand sanitizer and 5,000 ventilators.
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Those numbers are in flux and so are the Trump administration's because the White House cannot decide how many ventilators it wants.
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They said they had also requested additional supplies from the federal government: Of thousands of ventilators requested, they had received about 30.
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He mentioned Hanes as a company that is voluntarily manufacturing masks and claimed that Ford and General Motors have begun making ventilators.
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"He had a chance to buy in 2015 16,000 ventilators at a very low price and he turned it down," Trump said.
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Ventilators are a critical care tool for patients with severe cases of COVID-19, who may have trouble breathing on their own.
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Half of those ventilators are headed to New York City, where more than 2,800 people have been hospitalized with the novel coronavirus.
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Some ventilators sent to New York hospitals from a federal stockpile are arriving damaged and without crucial parts, Business Insider has found.
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A day ago, Cuomo also bashed the federal government for not doing enough to help New York get the ventilators it needs.
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By mobilizing the National Guard and Reserve, the country gets access to vast amounts of equipment and supplies including ventilators and masks.
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We intubated two of my patients within a half-hour, and I would say upwards of 10 patients were put on ventilators.
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The automaker is working with GE Healthcare to increase production of ventilators, a crucial tool for Covid-19 patients struggling to breathe.
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Countries around the world have raised concerns about potential shortages of the ventilators needed to treat critically ill patients suffering from coronavirus.
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Matt Callaghan, the co-founder of One Breath, which Tech Review profiled, intended to produce ventilators for countries in the developing world.
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The report noted that the supply of ventilators would be inadequate for a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 flu outbreak.
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Also, excess ventilator capacity was fairly limited, and that in short order, no ventilators would be available to support critically ill patients.
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Backup oxygen canisters line the hallway in the family's apartment in case a power failure causes the boys' ventilators to turn off.
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Both leaders have called on the federal government to nationalize the industries that manufacture supplies like hand sanitizer, surgical masks, and ventilators.
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And as the coronavirus spreads worldwide, Musk has said Tesla may start making ventilators to help those who have contracted the virus.
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Almost two decades into the 21st century, there were no electronic beeps, chimes, or alarms; no heart monitors, IV pumps, nor ventilators.
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Premature babies, weighing as little as a pound, are usually placed inside incubators and hooked up to ventilators after birth, the AP reports.
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The cases, which were primarily reported among teenagers and young adults, were so severe that some patients were hospitalized and put on ventilators.
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When the hospital ran out of diesel Monday, the ventilators had to run on batteries for hours until another hospital offered them fuel.
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I watched from a patient's room at a hospital for the chronically ill, amid the beeping of ventilators and heart rate monitors overhead.
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The United States is estimated to have only about 62,000 full featured ventilators on hand and an additional 8,900 in the national stockpiled.
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A 2015 study discussed another potential problem: during a pandemic, the number of respiratory therapists trained to operate ventilators may not be sufficient.
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The stockpile also includes ventilators, a supply that could become crucial in fighting the severe respiratory infections that can result from the virus.
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" I'd like to hear [General Motors CEO] Mary Barra and GM tell me when the ventilators are coming off the line," said Tepper.
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Musk made the remarks on Twitter after previously tweeting that his company would help make ventilators if there were to be a shortage.
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During the past week, we heard American companies are now retooling their factories to manufacture badly-needed medical supplies from masks to ventilators.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) confirmed Monday that the federal government is sending the city 22020 ventilators for area hospitals.
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We must build out more intensive care units and obtain additional ventilators, while doing whatever we can to support and protect medical personnel.
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"Hospitals will likely experience serious and widespread shortages of patient pulmonary ventilators and of staff qualified to operate them," the report's abstract said.
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That approach could result in preventable deaths in places like New York and Michigan, where hospitals have already developed protocols for rationing ventilators.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson called this week for UK manufacturers to repurpose their supply lines to start producing vital medical equipment including ventilators.
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Nate Silver, the editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, had pointed out on Twitter that New York and Seattle were in need of ventilators.
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Some wealthy Americans are trying to buy personal ventilators in case hospital systems fail in the coronavirus crisis, The New York Times reported.
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One company which produces personal-sized ventilators said it will not take individual orders, despite the requests from wealthy buyers, NBC News reported.
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Supply chains, delivery systems and documented inventories for personal protective equipment, from masks to ventilators, for frontline medical workers and others in need.
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Musk has not given any specific timetable for producing ventilators, though, and did not say what his companies and Medtronic might do together.
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Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO, delivered more than 1,000 ventilators to California, but the confusion that followed the news underscored broader communication issues.
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"China had an oversupply, so we bought 1255 FDA-approved ResMed, Philips & Medtronic ventilators on Friday night & airshipped them to LA," Musk said.
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Trump has since come under mounting pressure to use the act as states scramble to shore up items like masks, gloves and ventilators.
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The President can also establish "voluntary agreements" with industries similar to what we are seeing with agreements between automakers to help make ventilators.
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There have been widespread reports that states are getting just a fraction of the masks, ventilators and other supplies they have asked for.
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The state has called for tens of thousands more ventilators, hospital beds and intensive care beds to meet the needs of their hospitals.
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Ventec has also been working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the White House to determine the total number of ventilators needed.
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"You don't want people who are producing air conditioning units for cars to all of a sudden start producing entire ventilators," he said.
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Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Friday to require GM to produce more ventilators — but on Sunday shifted to praising the company.
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We're happy when a vehicle manufacturer repurposes its factories to produce masks or ventilators, but we don't expect it to discover new drugs.
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On Monday, Virgin Orbit announced it was also seeking to produce ventilators, making it one of the first aerospace companies to get involved.
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Some of them don't admit it, but they have -- we have sent just so much -- so many things to them and -- including ventilators.
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Patients can also opt for lifesaving treatments — except when their hearts stop or they can't breathe on their own, precluding resuscitation or ventilators.
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Doctors fear that this scarcity will force them to make difficult decisions regarding which patients need the remaining ventilators more so than others.
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"Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves," Trump told the governors during a phone call, The New York Times reported.
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For instance, ventilator guidelines for New York state released in 2015 note that there are 7,241 ventilators available, with an additional 1,750 stockpiled.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the electric car company had bought hundreds of ventilators from China and shipped them to the US.
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Musk said Wednesday that the company's factory in Buffalo, New York, will open "as soon as humanly possible" to produce more ventilators there.
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Another site in Pau produces non-invasive ventilators, and plans to produce 600 units in April, compared with the present level of 200.
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Children at the Wanaque Center, in northern New Jersey, are pediatric long-term care residents, with some reliant on ventilators and tracheal tubes.
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Another site in Pau produces non-invasive ventilators, and plans to produce 600 units in April, compared with the present level of 200.
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As the number of Covid-193 cases surges, state governments and hospitals are clamoring for more ventilators and facing a dearth of supplies.
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It would be amazing if we can avoid running out of ventilators and hospital space, the catastrophe that has befallen parts of Italy.
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The masks can be turned into parts for makeshift ventilators, a medical device used to feed oxygen to patients with severe difficulty breathing.
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While Musk said he procured a supply of ventilators from China, the status of Tesla's efforts to manufacture them is not entirely clear.
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot raised questions about the national strategic stockpile of personal protection equipment and ventilators in a Tuesday interview with Insider.
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Coronavirus patients in New York will have to resort to using bag valve masks if the Empire State doesn't have enough ventilators, Gov.
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The only thing missing was clarity from the government about how many ventilators they needed — and who would be paid to build them.
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In California, officials said 170 ventilators sent to Los Angeles had been unusable and were sent to a Silicon Valley company for repair.
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On a call with Trump on Friday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer asked the President to use the law to make ventilators immediately.
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We are getting calls from automobile companies and other companies saying they have capacity and they want to make ventilators and other things.
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California has received 1,000 ventilators provided by Elon Musk to help hospitals treat patients diagnosed with COVID-19, Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo emphasized New York State's dire need for ventilators and criticized the US government for not being more proactive in helping.
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NewYork-Presbyterian, a network of 13 hospitals and medical centers in and around the city, received 300 ventilators from the stockpile last week.
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On that day, he estimates that the country's hospitals will be short 61,509 beds and 15,103 intensive care units – and need 26,753 ventilators.
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The sickest coronavirus patients have needed to go on ventilators to help them breathe when they're unable to do it on their own.
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We're now in a situation where we're trying to accelerate production of these ventilators, and a ventilator is a complicated piece of equipment.
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Our health systems locally and nationwide are already dangerously stretched thin in terms of staff, protective equipment, ventilators, intensive care and isolation beds.
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Ventilators, machines that allow seriously ill patients to breathe, are also going to be on short supply as the wave of cases increases.
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General Motors said it is not making ventilators but is looking at ways to help the health care company Ventec increase its production.
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" The next day he said he had directed "a lot" of companies to make "a lot of ventilators" and "a lot of masks.
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Talarico fears sex workers will face bigger problems if the pandemic worsens, as it has in Italy, with limited hospital beds and ventilators.
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A dearth of hospital beds, ventilators, and rested physicians means a spike in people requiring hospitalization could greatly overwhelm the civilian health system.
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They foresee a major risk that the number of serious cases exceeds the US health system's capacity in hospital beds, ICUs, and ventilators.
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The state, for instance, has been stockpiling ventilators, which are critical for treating coronavirus patients who have a severe form of the illness.
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Patients staying much longer could need treatment for bloodstream or hospital-acquired infections and have to remain on ventilators to assist their breathing.
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He then thought of installing the faux ventilators and hired a metalworker to fabricate a number of six-by-fourteen-inch louvred screens.
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For patients with ALS who could no longer breathe on their own, I have provided breathing support through complex breathing machines called ventilators.
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That said, patients who rely on noninvasive ventilators are too vulnerable to be subjected to the lowest bidder for their equipment and services.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday on Twitter that the company would make ventilators in case of a shortage during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ventilators are so important to treatment of coronavirus and in such short supply that people have begun to build and share DIY solutions.
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There's a limited supply of ventilators, which are a key instrument for treating respiratory illnesses like COVID-19, Business Insider's Lydia Ramsey reported.
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A recent report from the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins estimated that there were about 160,000 ventilators available for patient care.
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Moreover, if a pandemic more closely followed the model of the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918, we would need more than 740,000 ventilators.
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Andrew Cuomo has been the stuff of reality TV. As for Trump's claims that "nobody in their wildest dreams" could have foreseen the need for so many ventilators, well, again, China's experience -- and even that of Italy -- suggests we could have foreseen that a large number of respiratory issues, all happening at the same time, could require a massive number of ventilators.
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Read more:Elon Musk says on Twitter that his factories are 'working on ventilators' for a possible shortage caused by coronavirusHospitals could be overwhelmed with patients and run out of beds and ventilators as the coronavirus pushes the US healthcare system to its limitsAn inside look at how the elite are preparing for the coronavirus pandemicHere's everything we know about the coronavirus outbreak
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" He also praised Trump for invoking the Defense Production Act, because it "gives him the muscle of the law to get companies to actually respond to the production of ventilators, which is exactly what we want," Cuomo said, later adding that Trump "needs (accelerated production) and he's right -- these ventilators are going to be the matter of life and death.
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To the Editor: Re "At the Top of All Lists: Ventilators" (Business, March 19): President Trump's exhortation that governors "try getting it yourselves" regarding ventilators and that the federal government is "not a shipping clerk" for state governments in need of supplies couldn't compare more unfavorably to the way President Obama treated the crisis states faced during the Great Recession.
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At the center of the discussion about how to ramp up the production of ventilators is Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and a senior White House aide, who has told people that he was called in two weeks ago by Vice President Mike Pence to produce more coronavirus test kits and who has now turned his attention to ventilators.
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Andrew Cuomo for asking the federal government for help in amassing thousands of ventilators necessary for what is expected to be by far the largest surge in critically ill coronavirus patients in the US.Cuomo asked Trump on Tuesday to release the national stockpile of 20,000 ventilators to New York state, which is facing a major shortage in the critical machinery as cases surge.
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Research in ICUs has shown that, on their standard settings, artificial ventilators can put huge pressure on the lungs, tearing tissue and provoking inflammation.
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This aerie — the tower in the sky, the reassuring hush of the ventilators — physically enacted an inherent tenet of the startup culture, I thought.
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Generally, these infections are picked up in hospitals or other health care settings, spread by medical devices, including intravenous tubes, urinary catheters and ventilators.
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That sounds much like a euphemism for deaths of people with respiratory conditions relying on BiPAP/CPAP, ventilators, nebulizers, and oxygen concentrators, Roth says.
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Our ventilators are quite smart and try to breathe with the child as much as possible so that they are not fighting the vent.
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Most vaping injuries can be treated with antibiotics, steroids, respiratory ventilators that help a person breath, or a mixture of these methods, Scott said.
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The United States government began amassing a reserve of ventilators more than 9603 years ago, in preparation for a future, widespread attack on Americans.
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Trump also suggested that companies would struggle to produce medical equipment like ventilators, which helps patients breathe when they're struggling to on their own.
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Physicians handling the brunt of that country's outbreak, to reduce transmission in hospitals, are encouraging mobile clinics and even moving ventilators into patients' homes.
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Andrew Cuomo (D) announced Saturday that the state would send 1 million medical masks to New York City and purchase an additional 6,85033 ventilators.
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Fauci said that in the worst case scenario he wants to prevent there may not be sufficient ventilators available for patients who need them.
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In the United Kingdom, aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce and vacuum maker Dyson have also been approached about making ventilators to address shortages there.
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On a call with governors Monday, US President Donald Trump urged states to take their own steps to secure additional medical equipment including ventilators.
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When doctors ran out of a part needed to run their ventilators, volunteers stepped up with a 3D printer to manufacture the part themselves.
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"The effective operation of a production facility for ventilators is only possible in an integrated supply chain with sub-suppliers of components," wrote Kamann.
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Hospitals are scrambling for protective equipment for healthcare workers and ventilators as they brace for a wave of patients who will need help breathing.
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Elon Musk's offering to make ventilators to help coronavirus patients who desperately need them, but his proposal begs the question ... what's the freakin' holdup?!
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As coronavirus cases rise in the US, hospitals could soon run out of ventilators used to support people experiencing respiratory problems from the virus.
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Hospitals in the US have roughly 160,000 ventilators, the medical equipment necessary to treat the worst coronavirus cases, according to The New York Times.
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"We don't have masks, we don't have ventilators ... at the beginning of April we will run out of basic medical supplies," the mayor said.
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He also said Thursday that Tesla would manufacture ventilators "if there's a shortage" but went on to question whether such a shortage would emerge.
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A February report from Johns Hopkins University said the US had some 160,000 ventilators ready for use in hospitals, with another 8,900 in reserve.
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Ford also announced that it's working with GE Healthcare to increase production of ventilators, sophisticated air pumps needed by some critically ill coronavirus patients.
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The epidemic has prompted doctors to plea for more supplies and ventilators and Americans to run to grocery stores for sanitizers and other materials.
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"We have ventilators on all of our anesthesia machines in every single operating room and ambulatory care center in the nation," she told CNN.
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As the talks have gone on, GM has requested the federal government foot the costs to retool the factories that would make the ventilators.
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Cuomo said he will "make the decisions based on the data and the science" and "the numbers say you may need 30,000" additional ventilators.
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The company announced earlier Friday it was still moving forward with efforts to make ventilators, despite the pause in talks with the White House.
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Internally, aides have acknowledged that the move won't change the company's timeline because it will still have to retool factories to make the ventilators.
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Orlowski added that they are being trained very quickly to get them up to speed in the use of personal protective equipment and ventilators.
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If nations stop letting ventilators leave their borders, that could effectively be "denying a life saving technology to literally billions of people," Evenett said.
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The president was under growing pressure to use his DPA powers in order to better coordinate the production and distribution of badly needed ventilators.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, had recently sent President Donald Trump a letter imploring him to prioritize directing personal protective equipment and ventilators to the hospital.
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The administration will facilitate the production or acquisition of "100,000 additional units" of ventilators through other means over a 100-day period, Trump said.
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A push for medical supplies grows Medical staff nationwide have struggled to maintain an adequate supply of personal protective equipment, hospital beds and ventilators.
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Cuomo has pleaded for federal assistance amid growing fears of a shortage of personal protective equipment, ventilators and other medical supplies in the state.
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They are distributing the ventilators along with personal protective equipment including 2106,25,2000 face masks, 223,232 face shields, 240,143,214 surgical gloves and 217,22012 N95 masks.
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A study in Chest in April 2019 imagined a 1918 flulike pandemic in which there weren't enough I.C.U. beds and ventilators to meet demand.
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A study in Chest in April 2019 imagined a 1918 flulike pandemic in which there weren't enough I.C.U. beds and ventilators to meet demand.
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Officials have said the state would need to double its available hospital beds to 5003,2500 and could be short as many as 224,22020 ventilators.
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With ventilators in short supply, the challenges at Elmhurst, a 545-bed public hospital in Queens, show the hardships that medical workers are facing.
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Analysis: People close to the Trump administration's effort to ramp up production of ventilators say that mismanagement delayed the process by several crucial weeks.
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These lower-end ventilators, which are easier to produce because there are fewer components, can be used as an intermediary step in critical care.
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Ventilators — a medical device that helps patients breathe — have become critical to treating COVID-19 patients whose lungs are assailed by a respiratory illness.
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"It terrifies me to think of them getting the coronavirus and showing up at a hospital that has run out of ventilators," he said.
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