NASA Builds Ventilator Prototype for Coronavirus Patients

NASA is helping the medical community address the shortage of ventilators needed to treat coronavirus patients with a ventilator prototype. Within 37 days, engineers and others at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California created a high-pressure ventilator prototype tailored to the needs of patients with COVID-19 and sent it to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York for testing. The device, called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally), is design