GM will help make ventilators as the coronavirus pandemic rages and hospitals face unprecedented stress
On Friday, the automaker said it was working with Seattle-based Ventec Life Systems.
"We are working closely with Ventec to rapidly scale up production of their critically important respiratory products to support our country's fight again the COVID-19 pandemic," GM CEO Mary Barra said in a statement. "We will continue to explore ways to help in this time of crisis." The statement added, "Ventec will leverage GM's logistics, purchasing and manufacturing expertise to build more of their critically important ventilators."
As the number of COVID-19 coronavirus cases rapidly increases in the US, and New York state, California, and Illinois issue shelter-in-place directives, ventilators could soon be in short supply for the most severer cases of illness."With GM's help, Ventec will increase ventilator production," Ventec Life Systems CEO Chris Kiple said in a statement. "By tapping their expertise, GM is enabling us to get more ventilators to more hospitals much faster.
President Donald Trump has indicated on several occasions that GM could switch from making cars to making ventilators, and on Friday a source with knowledge of the planning at the company said that it was working with another firm to expedite the process.
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