Oxygen Industry Scrambles To Keep U.S. Patients With COVID-19 Breathing

A technician adjusts the oxygen tanks for medical use at a Columbia University field hospital last April. The surging waves of cases of COVID-19 around the U.S. have also led to shifting surges in demand by hospitals for extra oxygen.

Supply shortages of oxygen for hospitals have plagued many countries, but the U.S. has averted the most dire — partly because the industry figured out new ways to share resources and anticipate needs.

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