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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said coronavirus patients with severe symptoms could need a ventilator for anywhere from 11 to 21 days as the state faces a significant shortage of the devices.
Cuomo said on Thursday that although the average non-COVID-19 patient only needs a ventilator for three to four days, coronavirus patients need one for 11 to 21 days. Professor Sarath Ranganathan, director of respiratory and sleep medicine at Melbourne's The Royal Children's Hospital and a board member of Lung Foundation Australia, told The Guardian that COVID-19 patients may need to stay on a ventilator "for weeks."
But in an interview Thursday night with Sean Hannity, the president played down the need for ventilators.
“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” he said, a reference to New York, where Gov. Andrew Cuomo has appealed for federal help in obtaining them. “You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they’ll have two ventilators. And now all of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’”