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Colombia rushes to make cheap ventilators for COVID patients

by Associated Press
| April 15, 2020 9:09 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Engineers in Colombia have developed a mechanical ventilator for COVID-19 patients that could cost as little as $2,000 — one of numerous crash projects around the world aimed at helping ease a global shortage of the devices.

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