UK asks Rolls-Royce and Jaguar to make ventilators in wartime-like effort
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2020
LONDON - Faced with the prospect that waves of coronavirus patients struggling to breathe will soon overwhelm its hospitals, the British government issued a cry for help from manufacturers - the builders of automobiles, jet engines, dialysis machines, excavation equipment - to switch their assembly lines over to make mechanical ventilators.