Read this article about The Surprisingly Long History of the Ventilator which was written by Alejandro De La Garza on time.com and was published on April 7, 2020. Find the full article by visiting the time.com website: https://time.com/5815499/ventilator-history/

Here is a little snippet from that article:

With millions of people across the U.S. and the world battling COVID-19 infections, many of them struggling to breathe, ventilators have become a top priority for the healthcare workers trying desperately to keep patients alive. And those machines, that help patients breathe or breathe for them, are in startlingly short supply.

For doctors, resorting to a ventilator is an extreme measure, used when a patient’s lungs cannot supply enough oxygen on their own. Ventilators can also give a patient’s body time to rest when breathing is difficult, and allow doctors to more easily remove lung secretions or deliver medications directly to the respiratory system.

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