Here’s how ventilators work, and why they can save lives | Just The FAQs: Deep Dive

The U.S. is currently facing a shortage of ventilators. Here's how they work and why they are so important in fighting COVID-19.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday he would "want to see a clear indication" that the U.S. is "very clearly and strongly going in the right direction," before reopening the country.

"The virus kind of decides whether or not it's going to be appropriate to open," the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said on CNN. He warned the country could "prematurely" end social distancing measures and then "you're right back in the same situation."

Fauci said that the curve of new cases appear to be flattening as hospitalizations and patients on ventilators in New York were down: "We're going in the right direction, let's keep in that direction."

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21 comments

    1. Because it sounds Mexican not Chinese ! They don’t like
      it called Wuhan Flu as it was
      called originally! Democrats
      say it is politically incorrect!

    2. @Brenda Chown just like 1930s Germany when you got a disgruntled populous and a leader giving you someone to blame

  1. I have a feeling you’re better off at a for Profit Private Hospital over a State Funded Public Hospital.

  2. I just think it’s too suspicious, all of a sudden the “government ” are worrying about medical situations; they sure never cared before.

  3. I just wish someone he is close to comes down with the virus. It would literally changes his world.

  4. We are going to look back years from now and look at this as the biggest overreaction in history

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