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GM and Ford teamed up with medical-device makers to churn out tens of thousands of ventilators during the early days of the pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Although the fungus can exist on the skin without causing symptoms, patients who depend on ventilators face a much greater risk.

From Science Daily • Dec. 23, 2025

In March 2020, as Covid was spreading across northern Italy, there was a frantic attempt by health authorities to get hold of ventilators to help patients breathe.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

“But they often were not able to fix ventilators because the manufacturers were overwhelmed by the number of ventilators that were broken because there were so many being used.”

From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024

It talked or sometimes yelled through its ventilators, too.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut