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Re-Examining the Race to Send Ventilators to Low-Resource Settings

Sreekar Mantena, Khama Rogo and Thomas F Burke
Respiratory Care September 2020, 65 (9) 1378-1381; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4187/respcare.08185
Sreekar Mantena
Departments of Statistics and Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Khama Rogo
World Bank Group, Nairobi, Kenya.
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Thomas F Burke
Global Health Innovation Laboratory, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
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