Ford Joins Effort to Make Ventilators

This briefing is no longer updating. Read the latest developments in the coronavirus outbreak here . Here's what you need to know: Ford Motor and General Electric will produce 50,000 ventilators. Stocks climb but investor unease continues. Misleading coronavirus videos posted by Brazil's president are pulled down. Macy's has lost the 'majority' of its sales. New York's attorney general has questions for Zoom about privacy and security. Ford Motor and General Electric will produce 50,000 ventilators. Ford Motor and General Electric 's health care division said on Monday that they together planned to produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days to help meet the needs of hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic. Ford plans to continue making about 30,000 ventilators a month once the initial batch has been made. Ford will use a plant in Rawsonville, Mich., and about 500 workers to make the medical devices. Ford's effort is the second-such initiative by a major automaker. General Motors has said it plans to make ventilators at one of its factories in Kokomo, Ind., with Ventec Life Systems, a ventilator manufacturer. Tesla , the electric car company, has also said that it intends to make ventilators with Medtronic at a factory… Read full this story

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