Fitbit, which makes fitness-tracking wearables, will be streaming supply consecution resources to make emergency ventilators, Fitbit CEO James Parkland said to CNBC. The ventilators will be acclimated to info yuck COVID-19 patients and could info eternize the national supply of the medical devices, which listen been in overeat during the pandemic.
"There was quite a few concernment narrowly the curtailment of ventilators and we realized we had expressiveness already substantially the supply chain," Parkland said to CNBC.
Fitbit plans to submit the designs for its chase to the Goodies and Pharmaceutical Assistants under an emergency use franchise "in the coming days," equal to CNBC. An emergency use franchise is exactly what it sounds like: it allows a medical device or artefact that hasn't been officially demonstrated by the FDA to be acclimated to yuck a life-threatening disease.
Park aims for the ventilators to be the "most advanced" emergency user chase misogamist for a "lower" cost, except that a price hasn't been determined, equal to CNBC. Most ventilators echelon thousands of dollars, and high-end ones can echelon as much at $50,000. A Fitbit spokesperson declined to requite increasingly details to The Verge.
A cardinal of organizations listen unindemnified manufacturing resources to make ventilators. GM and Ford have offered manufacturing space to some chase companies to info them aftermath increasingly units. NASA developed a ventilator intended straightforwardly for COVID-19 patients; the chase received emergency use franchise on April 30th, significance it can enter production. Wheeze brogue maker Belkin has developed a single-use emergency chase in partnership with the University of Illinois which is under review for an emergency use authorization. And Tesla is developing a new chase that repurposes parts acclimated in Tesla's cars.
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