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Next potential shortage: Drugs needed to run ventilators

by Associated Press
| April 11, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — As hospitals scour the country for scarce ventilators to treat critically ill patients stricken by the new coronavirus, pharmacists are beginning to sound an alarm that could become just as urgent: Drugs that go hand in hand with ventilators are running low even as demand is surging.

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