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A 2006 pandemic plan warned NYC could be short up to 9,500 ventilators.
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The Big Story
Mon. Apr 6, 2020
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A 2006 pandemic plan warned that New York City could be short as many as 9,500 ventilators. But the city only acquired a few hundred, which were ultimately scrapped because it couldn’t afford to maintain them.
by Justin Elliott, Annie Waldman and Joshua Kaplan
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