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A new type of ventilator, the Breath4life, was introduced by UCLouvain University in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, on March 26. Pool Daina Lelardic/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images

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As the number of fatalities from the CCP virus has increased in the United States, medical professionals have expressed their concern over the vast number of ventilators that could be needed to treat patients, with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo requesting some 30,000 ventilators for New York State alone.