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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-2019) Situation Reports April 4, 2020

Daily coronavirus disease situation reports from the World Health Organization outline the evolving epidemiology of the outbreak. 

Working Protocol for Supporting Two Patients with a Single Ventilator March 26, 2020

The Greater New York Hospital Association, working to support the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, developed an emergy protocol titled: "Ventilator Sharing Protocol: Dual-Patient Ventilation with a Single Mechanical Ventilator for Use during Critical Ventilator Shortages....

Joint Statement on Multiple Patients Per Ventilator March 26, 2020

A statement from the American Society of Anesthesiologists advising clinicians against placing multiple patients on a single ventilator. 

Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths March 13, 2020

An estimate on the number of deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic based on CDC estimates. 

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Emergency Use Authorizations for Medical Devices February 4, 2020

The FDA have issued, and continue to issue, a number of emergency use authorization protocols for medical devices during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Ventilator Stockpiling and Availability in the US and Internationally May 3, 2018

Clade X, a pandemic exercise performed in 2018, indicated that the maximum ventilator capacity in the US did not meet the estimated requirement of a major pandemic.