The New York Times
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4 تغريدة 8 قراءة Apr 03, 2020
As the coronavirus ravages the U.S. health care system, the scarcity of ventilators has been forcing doctors to make life-or-death decisions about who gets to breathe and who does not. Our investigation helps explain the acute shortage of medical devices.
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13 years ago, U.S. public health officials came up with a plan to address what they regarded as one of the medical system’s crucial vulnerabilities: a shortage of ventilators nyti.ms
Things veered off course when a multibillion-dollar maker of medical devices, Covidien, bought the small California company, Newport Medical Instruments, that had been hired to design the new machines. The project ultimately produced zero ventilators. nyti.ms
The stalled efforts to create cheap, easy-to-use ventilators highlight the perils of outsourcing public-health projects to private companies; their focus on maximizing profits is not always consistent with the government’s goal of preparing for a crisis. nyti.ms

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