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.