The U.S. has a desperate need for ventilators to save patients who become critically ill with COVID-19. Across America, manufacturers are scrambling to fire up assembly lines to produce more than a hundred thousand of them–and to figure out what to do …
Ford’s partnership with GE Healthcare has a second simplified ventilator in the works in the battle against coronavirus COVID-19, and it plans to produce 50,000 of them by July.
Prices for ventilators are rising as states in need of supplies bid up the prices, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in his daily news conference on Saturday.
A medical-device entrepreneur has a slimmed-down design for a $10,000 ventilator that he hopes to mass produce to fight COVID-19, pending FDA approval.
California startup Carbon, which just got FDA approval for its test swab, is one of dozens of companies 3D-printing medical equipment needed to fight the coronavirus
Ford announced today that it will be working with 3M and GE Healthcare to produce respirators, ventilators and N95 masks to address shortages in the treatment of coronavirus patients.
Manufacturing conglomerate 3M said that it had shipped more than half-a-million N95 masks to New York and Seattle, two of the places hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis, and is ready to send additional shipments across the country.