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A hospital worker in Antananarivo, Madagascar moves oxygen cylinders on July 20, 2020. Image: Rijasolo/AFP/Getty

Gasping for Air in Africa

August 10, 2020

Severe shortages of medical oxygen across sub-Saharan Africa have robbed many patients with severe COVID-19 and pneumonia of a key time-buying treatment.

A ventilator and other hospital equipment in an emergency field hospital to aid in the COVID-19 pandemic in Central Park on March 31, 2020 in New York. Image: Misha Friedman/Getty

Why It’s So Hard to Solve the Ventilator Shortage

April 6, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to expand, one thing has become clear: there aren’t enough ventilators to go around.

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