Coronavirus ventilators: Australian government asks carmaker Ford for help in boosting production

The federal government has begun urgent discussions with Ford to help boost ventilator stocks and is investigating whether veterinary equipment and sleep apnoea machines can be converted for use in the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus crisis is placing immense pressure on the global availability of ventilators, which are needed to pump oxygen into the failing lungs of critically ill patients.

Italy’s swamped hospitals have found themselves with ventilator shortages, forcing doctors to make heart-wrenching decisions, while in New York, mayor Bill de Blasio warned that the city needed 15,000 ventilators urgently or its death toll would spike.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/coronavirus-ventilators-australian-government-asks-carmaker-ford-for-help-in-boosting-production

A nurse speaks with patients at a coronavirus clinic in Adelaide

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