A British consortium comprising aerospace, automobile, and engineering companies that cooperated to build ventilators for the UK government has announced that its project is drawing to a close, The Guardian reports.
Companies including Ford, McLaren, Rolls-Royce, and Airbus collaborated to produce more than 13,000 ventilators, more than doubling the existing NHS stock. They operated on a not-for-profit basis.
At the beginning of the pandemic, widespread fears that the NHS would run out of ventilators caused panic, but in the end, everyone who needed access to a ventilator had one, and scare estimates that 30,000 machines would be needed proved to be way out of proportion.