The U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) on Wednesday awarded two contracts worth more than US$1 billion to make ventilators needed to ...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Health and Human Services Department on Wednesday awarded two contracts worth more than US$1 billion to make ventilators needed to treat severely sick coronavirus patients and plans to announce five additional contracts later this week.
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an order under the Defense Production Act to facilitate the supply of materials to produce ventilators to Philips, General Electric Co , Hill-Rom Holdings Inc , Medtronic Plc , ResMed Inc and Vyaire Medical Inc. HHS plans to announce contracts with those firms later this week, the agency said.
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