Jason Bates: building affordable ventilators

An expat New Zealander is trying to get FDA approval for a cheap ventilator that could be a game-changer in the treatment of Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses across the developing world.

Professor Jason Bates from the University of Vermont is a specialist in the function of the human lung.

He’s helping to design and build the “Vermont-ilator” which will retail for a couple of thousand dollars, rather than the current cost of tens of thousands of dollars for a standard ventilator.

Jason Bates: building affordable ventilators
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