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Can anyone who needs a ventilator get one? So far, it looks like it
POLITIFACT
Apr 23, 2020
Several states credited social distancing, statewide shelter-in-place policies and other mitigation efforts aimed at slowing the spread of the Coronavirus with keeping their hospitals from being overwhelmed with patients or burning through their ventilators.
"All those measures are helping, and they’re why we didn’t run out of ventilators," said Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities. Read article>>