Ford to produce roughly 50,000 ventilators in fight against coronavirus
A Ford logo on the grill of a 2018 Ford Explorer on display at the Pittsburgh Auto Show in Feb. 2018. Ford Motor Company has announced plans to make 50,000 ventilators at one of its Michigan plants over the next 100 days in an effort to arm those on the front lines with equipment to fight COVID-19. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) States with strained healthcare workers have requested the Trump administration and manufacturers speed up the production of ventilators to assist a surge in patients, according to Reuters.
Hospitals in New York have been reportedly using a single ventilator to assist two infected patients, while New Orleans only has a small percentage of ventilators the state requires, officials said, per the news organization.
Ford said they will eventually produce 30,000 ventilators per month as needed to treat coronavirus patients.
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Meanwhile, General Motors said on Sunday that it plans to produce up to 10,000 ventilators per month at a plant in Indiana by this summer, according to Reuters.