Project Vital: NASA Workers Design, Develop Ventilator From Scratch
(CBS DETROIT) - Researchers over at NASA have joined the fight against Covid-19 in their own way.
Laboratory workers who normally craft spaceship parts, are now making ventilators.
It's known as project vital.
More than 100 people at NASA managed to develop and test a ventilator prototype in just 37 days.
So far, they're calling the mission a success.
Testing on this new ventilator is going well at a New York hospital.
Doctors say it delivers oxygen at higher pressures which is needed for Covid-19 patients.
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