ventilator
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During the Covid pandemic, America faced an acute ventilator shortage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Salcedo is now breathing with the help of a ventilator and has just a 15% chance of survival, said his father, Javier Salcedo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
He spent nine days on a ventilator and 18 days on dialysis, during which time doctors gave him blood, platelet and plasma transfusions.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The United States had called for Rivera's release after the government published photos of the visibly emaciated detainee hooked up to a ventilator.
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
An hour after the lights went out, disdaining Mammachi’s frightened pleading, little Ammu crept back into the house through a ventilator to rescue her new gumboots that she loved more than anything else.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
It's a mammoth task: The vast majority of the city's 20,500 licensed food carts -- selling pretzels, peanuts and ice cream -- rely on generators to power stoves, freezers and ventilators.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Within weeks, the GM-Ventec partnership began shipping thousands of ventilators to hospitals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Does she wonder how the people hospitalized on ventilators or who lost loved ones feel?
From Salon ● May 11, 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
It talked or sometimes yelled through its ventilators, too.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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