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'Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company’s factory in Buffalo, New York will open “as soon as humanly possible” to produce ventilators that are in short supply due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

His comments, which were made Wednesday via Twitter, follows previous statements by the CEO outlining plans to either donate ventilators or work to increase production of the critical piece of medical equipment needed for patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by coronavirus."

techcrunch.com/2020/03/25/tesl

From the same article above, an interesting fact -- that Medtronic is open sourcing their design plans for some simpler models of ventilators, to allow any interested parties to produce them.

This is good news on a sorely needed item in this pandemic.

"Medtronic CEO Omar Ishrak told CNBC on Wednesday that it is increasing capacity of its critical care ventilators and partnering with others such as Tesla. He said Medtronic is open sourcing one of its lower-end ventilators in less acute situations for others to make ventilators as quickly as they can. These lower-end ventilators, which are easier to produce because there are fewer components, can be used as an intermediary step in critical care."

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