
White House: U.S. Planning to Ship 8,000 Ventilators Abroad
President Donald Trump is making plans to ship 8,000 of the breathing machines to foreign countries by the end of July to help in their fight against the coronavirus.
President Donald Trump is making plans to ship 8,000 of the breathing machines to foreign countries by the end of July to help in their fight against the coronavirus.
Mexico has received a shipment of 211 medical ventilators from the United States as part of aid that U.S. President Donald Trump promised.
The COVID-19 pandemic raises the need from EMS to transfer patients from heavily affected regions to hospitals that have the capability to provide more advanced treatment – particularly for those ventilated and in need of intensive care. In addition, global demand in procuring ventilators, and lack of readily supply raises the need for self-sufficiency in acquiring or creating new ventilator prototypes.
Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could be harming certain patients.
The governor suggested that New York may be one of the states to receive the ventilators, but he said the federal government was best poised to decide where they were needed most.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said New York could be six days away from exhausting its supply of ventilators as the statewide death count jumped by more than 400 in 24 hours.
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