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Shots - Health News
Studies of steroids, including the generic drug dexamethasone, have found that these drugs can reduce deaths in patients hospitalized with serious cases of COVID-19.

Inexpensive Steroids Can Save Lives Of Seriously Ill COVID-19 Patients

Sep 02, 2020
Multiple studies now confirm earlier research: Dexamethasone and hydrocortisone, drugs that reduce an immune system's overreaction, can help reduce deaths of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
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Goats and Soda

Pandemic Perspective: What The 20 Poorest And Richest Countries Spend On Health Care

Jun 13, 2020
A rich country might spend $5,000 or more on health care per person. A poor country might spend as little as $19 per person. How will that affect responses to the novel coronavirus?
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Coronavirus Live Updates
A shipment of medical aid from the United States, including 50 ventilators, appears inside a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane Thursday at Vnukovo International Airport outside Moscow.

U.S. Sends Ventilators To Russia In $5.6 Million Coronavirus Aid Package

May 21, 2020
The U.S. government delivers 50 American-made ventilators on Thursday and will send another 150 next week.
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Goats and Soda
Elham Mansori, Florence Poya, Nahida Khajazadeh and Somaya Farooqi, members of the Afghan Dreamers, are building a mechanized version of the hand-operated ventilator.

All-Girl Robotics Team In Afghanistan Works On Low-Cost Ventilator ... With Car Parts

May 21, 2020
Automated ventilators are expensive. Hand-operated ventilators require a lot of labor. So these teens are on a quest to create a mechanized bag-valve-mask that'll do the job.
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Faces Of The Coronavirus Recession
Todd Olson's company, Twin City Die Castings, played a key role in an urgent project to help General Motors make ventilators for the coronavirus effort.

How His Small Factory Got Drafted Into Crafting A Key Component For Ventilators

May 20, 2020
Todd Olson is CEO of a Minneapolis manufacturer that played a key role in a project to help General Motors make ventilators for the pandemic. He calls the effort "our biggest moment."
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Shots - Health News
A nurse at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan holds a cellphone last month so a COVID-19 patient can see and listen to his family.

New Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Patients On Ventilators Usually Survive

May 15, 2020
Early reports found death rates as high as 90% among COVID-19 patients on ventilators. But some hospitals are now reporting mortality lower than 30%.
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State Returns Borrowed Ventilators To California

May 05, 2020

Nevada hospitals have returned 50 ventilators California gave the state on loan to treat coronavirus patients.

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Shots - Health News
Nurses reposition an intubated COVID-19 patient in a prone position in the intensive care unit at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista, Calif., on April 10.

After The ICU, Many COVID-19 Survivors Face A Long Recovery

Apr 21, 2020
David Williams, 54, spent eight days on a ventilator after he got COVID-19. Weeks after being discharged from the hospital, he still needs an oxygen tube and a walker.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
A Model A-E ventilator, left, and a simple test lung. Ford plans to begin manufacturing the simple ventilator that operates on air pressure, without the need for electricity, next week.

Ford Says It's On Track To Begin Making Ventilators Next Week

Apr 16, 2020
The carmaker will be able to manufacture 50,000 ventilators by July 4, a Ford official tells Morning Edition. It is retooling a plant in Michigan, which is scheduled to begin operations Monday.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
General Motors and Ventec Life Systems are partnering to produce ventilators at the GM manufacturing facility in Kokomo, Ind.

GM Will Build 30,000 Ventilators For U.S. Government

Apr 08, 2020
The ventilators will be delivered to the national stockpile by August. The contract, worth nearly $500 million, is the first ventilator order placed using the Defense Production Act.
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Nevada To Get More Ventilators As Virus Spreads, Need Grows

Apr 06, 2020

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Gov. Steve Sisolak says Nevada's use of ventilators has grown as more coronavirus cases have been reported, with 44% of the state's ventilators in use.

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Shots - Health News
A ventilator and other hospital equipment is seen in an emergency field hospital to aid in the coronavirus pandemic in Central Park in New York City on Tuesday.

Ventilator Shortages Loom As States Ponder Rules For Rationing

Apr 03, 2020
Many states are projected to have excessive demand for ventilator machines in the coming weeks, but no state government has formally asked hospitals to prepare for difficult and complex crisis triage.
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Shots - Health News
A ventilator can help patients unable to breathe on their own, but the experience of COVID-19 patients has been sobering for doctors.

Ventilators Are No Panacea For Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients

Apr 02, 2020
Ventilators can be lifesaving for some critically ill patients, but they're no panacea. The experience so far with COVID-19 is that the majority of patients put on ventilators don't survive.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Joe Cipollone of Ventec Life Systems explains the company's critical care ventilator to General Motors employees who will be helping to produce the ventilators at a GM plant in Kokomo, Ind., on Friday.

FEMA Hadn't Ordered Ventilators. Manufacturers Forged Ahead Anyway

Apr 01, 2020
Medical technology companies — sometimes working with carmakers — have been massively increasing production of ventilators. For two weeks, they've been working without government contracts in hand.
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Coronavirus Live Updates

Ford To Build 50,000 Ventilators At Michigan Auto Parts Plant

Mar 30, 2020
The automaker is working with GE Health to build a simple ventilator licensed from a small medical technology firm. The government has been pushing automakers to help make the vital medical equipment.
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Shots - Health News
The mouthpiece of a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) device delivers enough pressurized air to keep the breathing passage of someone who has obstructive sleep apnea open throughout the night.

CPAP Machines Were Seen As Ventilator Alternatives, But Could Spread COVID-19

Mar 27, 2020
Doctors say the machine that helps some people with sleep apnea keep their airway open at night won't be enough to help an ill COVID-19 patient breathe and could spread the coronavirus to bystanders.
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Coronavirus Live Updates
A ventilator is pictured during a training in Hamburg, Germany, on March 25. The medical devices can be life-saving for patients with severe COVID-19 cases, but there aren't enough to meet the expected need in the United States.

Ventilator Makers Ask U.S. Government To Manage Distribution

Mar 25, 2020
Medical device manufacturers are asking the Trump administration to centralize decisions about how to prioritize which orders from states, local governments and hospitals should be filled first.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
A demonstration of a ventilator for future patients with coronavirus at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital in Ashdod, Israel.

Trump Invokes A Cold War Relic, The Defense Production Act, For Coronavirus Shortages

Mar 18, 2020
A law that allows the executive branch to direct industrial production is being used to spur firms to step up their output of scarce items, such as face masks and ventilators.
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