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Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 13, 2020
UK cancels order for simple ventilators, needs more complex ones
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LONDON: Britain has cancelled an order for thousands of units of a simple model of ventilator developed by industrial companies to treat COVID-19 because more sophisticated devices are now needed, a source involved in the project said on Sunday. The government confirmed it no longer required that particular model, known as BlueSky. Advertisement Advertisement “We
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 11, 2020
Outbid and left hanging, US states scramble for ventilators
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REUTERS: On the final Thursday in March the Arkansas team in charge of procuring ventilators thought they had scored a coup: a vendor had agreed to sell them 500 of the breathing machines critical to keeping COVID-19 patients alive at US$19,000 each. The next day they were told the deal had vanished because a buyer
Written by Gabriel HerveyApril 8, 2020
COVID-19: Trump says 110,000 ventilators will be added in coming weeks
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (Apr 8) that the federal government had 8,675 ventilators in a national stockpile available to states who need them while another 110,000 are to be delivered in coming weeks. “I don’t think we’ll need them,” the president said, referring to the ventilators, in a White House briefing. Advertisement
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 30, 2020
Trump accuses hospitals of hoarding ventilators
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump accused hospitals on Sunday (Mar 29) of hoarding ventilators that are in scarce supply across the United States as the coronavirus spreads, adding any hospitals not using the devices must release them. Trump, whose critics have accused him of trying to deflect blame over his handling of the crisis, did
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 25, 2020
Industry races to meet demand for ventilators
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PARIS: Manufacturers are on a mission to produce desperately needed medical ventilators for the coronavirus pandemic, even if it means converting assembly lines now making auto parts. Along with a shortage of masks and gloves, the spread of COVID-19 to almost every corner of the globe has highlighted a great need for specialised machines that help
Written by Gabriel HerveyMarch 19, 2020
UK faces ‘massive shortage’ of ventilators: Swiss manufacturer
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EMS, Switzerland: Britain faces a “massive shortage” of ventilators that will be needed to treat critically-ill patients suffering from coronavirus, after it failed to invest enough in intensive care equipment, a leading ventilator manufacturer said on Wednesday (Mar 18). “England is very poorly equipped,” said Andreas Wieland, chief executive of Hamilton Medical in Switzerland, which
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Commentary: The great COVID-19 race for protective medical gear and ventilators
ABU DHABI: With more than a million infections and over 65,000 deaths around the globe, doctors and other frontline healthcare responders are facing twin problems and calling for help. First, the acute shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) – masks, gowns, gloves and eyewear that protects them from the virus while tending to patients in