Researchers around the globe are ramping up efforts to build more respirators for COVID-19 patients who require hospitalization and ventilator support.
A team of Canadian physicists led by Nobel laureate and Queen’s University researcher, Art McDonald, is working to develop a ventilator that can be certified and manufactured with off-the-shelf parts.
The goal is to develop a common international standard for the machine, test and certify the device and partner with governments and manufacturers to support mass production.
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