Coronavirus: will we have enough respirators?

THE QUESTION. In the coronavirus crisis, point of salvation without mask for caregivers, we now know. But for patients, and in particular those most seriously affected by Covid-19, the most essential equipment is the " respirator ", which takes over from the suffering lungs and helps oxygenate the body.

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While authorities still seem to procrastinate on chloroquine, the entire medical profession and the Ministry of Health admit it, respirators constitute the " main treatment " for critically ill patients, as a study based on on the data collected in Wuhan. Does France have a strategic stock of this device? Is there a risk of a shortage of respirators, which would impose everywhere to choose which patients to treat as a priority, as was the case in Italy and Alsace in recent days?

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Estimates differ on the number of respirators. First there are several types, since

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