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A hospital-grade ventilator is a costly machine running between $25,000 and $50,000 EACH that helps patients breathe when they can’t perform that function on their own. Because the coronavirus, in extreme cases, can cause breathing difficulties, these machines are vital to saving lives during the pandemic.
On Saturday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that healthcare workers can expect 6,000 ventilators from across the globe to arrive in the coming weeks, as officials examine technology that potentially could allow two patients to share one ventilator.