California companies jump in to supply ventilators needed in coronavirus fight

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Ventilators are crucial in treating cases of COVID-19, because critically ill patients often suffer severe respiratory symptoms. But producing ventilators is no easy task.

Many California businesses have shuttered to limit the spread of the coronavirus, but construction continues after being deemed essential.

Tech giant Apple Inc. has been “working to source supplies” for healthcare workers and is donating “millions” of masks to healthcare workers in the U.S. and Europe, company CEO Tim Cook. Cook did not elaborate in the tweet on what supplies Apple would source, and a company spokesperson declined to comment further.

. Over the last few days, Musk has tweeted that SpaceX would be producing ventilators and that he had a “long engineering discussion” with ventilator manufacturer Medtronic, which has operational headquarters in Fridley, Minn.Musk has been skeptical that his ventilators would be ready in time for the critical shortage, though, tweeting Thursday that “we’re working on ventilators, even though I think there will not be a shortage by the time we can make enough to matter.

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Perhaps if more affected patients learned about a potential alternative to staying in the hospital hooked up to a ventilator, they might make a different choice and free up the facilities for someone else. This is but one of many:

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