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Hospitals fear shortage of ventilators for virus patients

by AP Medical Writers
| March 17, 2020 2:05 PM

U.S. hospitals bracing for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients with pneumonia and other breathing difficulties could face a critical shortage of mechanical ventilators and health care workers to operate them.

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