80 million masks, 8,800 ventilators: How New York is spending $5B to fight COVID-19
ALBANY — On April 2, Gov. Andrew Cuomo feared New York, based on national models of COVID-19 spread, could run out of ventilators in six days, A furious scramble for ventilators and BiPAP machines that could help patients breathe was underway. An order for 17,000 ventilators from China went largely unfilled. "Yes, the burn rate of ventilators is dropping, and six days of ventilator in the stockpile is troubling," Cuomo . "But we have all these extraordinary measures that when push comes to shove" the state can develop to help to help keep ...
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