British engineering firms have been called on to switch to making medical ventilators as concern grows about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
For patients critically ill with Covid-19, access to a ventilator could be a matter of life or death. The machines get oxygen into the lungs and remove carbon dioxide from the body when people are too sick to breathe on their own.
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