
A small Japanese company called Newport Medical Instruments was contracted to deliver thousands of ventilators in 2009 but ended up delivering none.
However, soon after Newport Medical Instruments was bought by a multi-billion dollar company called Covidien who called off the deal and no ventilators were produced. The federal government started over with another company called Philips in 2014, whose ventilator was approved only in 2019 and whose products have not yet been delivered, thus creating a massive shortage of ventilators in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to a lot of potentially dangerous misinformation. For reliable advice on COVID-19 including symptoms, prevention and available treatment, please refer to the World Health Organisation or your national healthcare authority.
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