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As medical supplies dwindle, universities build ventilators, swabs

EdScoop, April 2, 2020

April 2, 2020

As medical supplies dwindle, universities build ventilators, swabs

Similar efforts to develop an easy-to-produce ventilator with open source blueprints are underway at the University of California Irvine. “The need for ventilators is a medical Dunkirk,” UCI surgeon Brian said in a press release. “It’s a once-in-a-generation call to arms that we all must respond to.”