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Of equipment, including ventilators. this life—saving equipment helps patients to breathe in the most critical cases when their lung function fails. the uk currently has around 8,000 ventilators in the country, but needs many more. so, how do we urgently get access to more of these machines? can we manufacture more of them in this country? jen copestake has been looking at some of the possible solutions. the uk government has put a call—out to big businesses to help manufacture new ventilato...

So thank you to all of you. remember— stay at home, put out what nhs and save lives. thanks very much. —— protect our nhs. nhs and save lives. thanks very much. -- protect our nhs. the prime minister borisjohnson latest video just posted on twitter. now, with the uk and many parts of the world in lockdown — click looks at how people can stay connected. the race to make more ventilators. robots on the frontline. and how to look sharp on a digital date. this week, the uk went into lockdown...

In the medical field, people will die due to a lack of equipment. we also saw a sophisticated solution which could be made quickly. in canada, thornhill medical, whose battery—powered ventilators are used by the us military, have been asked by the government there to ramp up production. their portable intensive care device is battery—powered and generates its own oxygen from the air. theyre already ce marked and fda approved, and the designer believes they have the expertise to make them qui...

Now on bbc news, its time for click. the race to make more ventilators. robots on the frontline. and how to look sharp on a digital date. this week, the uk went into lockdown over the continuing coronavirus crisis. we were told to limit all of our activities and stay at home. this comes as the world health organization says the pandemic is accelerating across the globe. hospitals everywhere are facing a shortage

Need electricity. the idea was inspired by designs from japan that have been tested on the international space station. if the prototype succeeds, they want to make it freely available to those most in need. when we think about third world countries, where, like, there is, like, extremely huge populations, and theyre not that developed in the medical field, people will die due to a lack of equipment. we also saw a sophisticated solution which could be made quickly. in canada, thornhill medical, ...

President ceo of the beth israel medical center. good to see you again. you have actually run a couple of hospital systems. lets just get to the bottom of this voientilator issue. a hospital has as many ventilators as it believes it has to have under normal circumstances plus a contingency for unusual circumstances, but i guess we dont plan for pandemics. is that just how we think about how many ventilators we should have normally? >> i think thats right. i think hospitals try to have enough on ...

A gun or something. >> reporter: nanette was worried about that too. >> nanette told us that bill was dealing with a lot of shady people, gun dealers. >> reporter: and that was one theory. but there was something else, too, or, rather, someone else. >> the only person that we knew was frustrated with him was his business partner who he was in the lawsuit with. >> reporter: all of them, bills kids and nanette, told detective voth about that business partner. >> because he and mr. mclaughlin were ...

>> he enjoyed learning new things, discovering new things, especially if it helped people, benefitted people, if he could make money off an idea. >> reporter: hal fischel had worked with bill on an early phase of the machine. it was after fischel left the company that the money came rolling in. fischel thought his contribution to the invention deserved more than he got, so he sued bill mclaughlin, his former friend and partner. heres the thing. it was just two weeks before the murder that the co...

Icu room? i mean, are there other big pieces of equipment like that that we could have some other big event that could prove that we need? >> no. i think were really looking at the ability to take care of patients in an intensive care unit. the intensive care unit has very sophisticated monitoring equipment so people can be properly cared for in the setting. and were also looking at a pandemic like this in terms of rooms that have air flow so that respiratory infections arent spread into the hal...

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