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
On Wednesday, the government had released photos of him hooked up to a ventilator and visibly emaciated, after acknowledging that his situation was "critical."
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
If someone here in the firehouse knew about the ventilator then mightn't they “tell” the Hound...?
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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
Critical-minerals supply chains are far more complex than ventilators.
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
Steve Eccleshall says he wrote to Labour's Steve Witherden to ask for help to secure the release of 40 unused ventilators from Wrexham Maelor Hospital.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
To the guards who walked up and down outside, each car became a single organism which ate and drank and excreted through its ventilators.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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