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British Doctors Say Ventilators Purchased From China Could Kill Coronavirus Patients
newsweek ^ | 4/30/20 | Katherine Fung On

Posted on 05/01/2020 10:20:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The ventilators received from China, the Shangrila 510 model, were built by one of the country's major ventilator manufacturers, Beijing Aeonmed Co. Ltd. The manufacturer could not be reached for comment.

The letter detailed serious concerns over the "basic" quality of the ventilators, calling the oxygen supply "variable and unreliable." The doctors said that the machines are also unfamiliar to British doctors and were built for ambulance use, rather than hospital use.

Addressed directly to a senior NHS official, the letter stated: "We look forward to the withdrawal and replacement of these ventilators with devices better able to provide intensive care ventilation for our patients."

The U.K. is not the only country that has faced problems with medical equipment from China. Both the Netherlands and Finland have reportedly found that masks bought from China had not met the required standard in hospitals. Accuracy of testing kits purchased from Chinese manufacturers for the novel coronavirus were also called into question in Spain and the U.K, according to media reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: china; chinese; shocked; ventilators

1 posted on 05/01/2020 10:20:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

but the mainstream media narrative, including an article in Forbes is talking about the moment that China became the leading power in the world.

you should be forced to live in reality when you have a newscasting job or a news writing job.

Maybe give them electroshock or something


2 posted on 05/01/2020 10:24:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dloont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: BenLurkin

Can you find these knockoffs at the dollar store or on Amazon?


3 posted on 05/01/2020 10:26:29 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The fish wrap media promoted Obama's Benghazi lies in 2012)
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To: BenLurkin

China is just like a sleazy salesman... get one sale once

It will rank their shaky economy


4 posted on 05/01/2020 10:36:27 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: BenLurkin

Lol. PRC China will urge stupid Britons to double check the instruction manual.


5 posted on 05/01/2020 10:47:42 PM PDT by granada
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To: BenLurkin

“The doctors said that the machines are also unfamiliar to British doctors and were built for ambulance use, rather than hospital use.”

.........
They only have themselves to blame. Why couldn’t they place the order properly?


6 posted on 05/01/2020 10:54:06 PM PDT by granada
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To: BenLurkin

When will the world learn not to buy everything from China?


7 posted on 05/01/2020 10:54:08 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: BenLurkin

The Shangrila! You gotta love that Chinese sense of humor.


8 posted on 05/01/2020 11:21:14 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: BenLurkin

mmhmm... and they want to provide the vaccines too!


9 posted on 05/01/2020 11:41:20 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: a fool in paradise

Honestly, I’m surprised that companies like Centurion medical auctions aren’t blowing up. Most of their equipment winds up being shipped to Mexico and Southeast Asia, all equipment which was once ours.

... I should get in touch with them.


10 posted on 05/01/2020 11:55:38 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: BenLurkin; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Delta 21; tubebender; Lockbox; OldMissileer; ...
Well color Me like a freaking Rainbow, who would expect that from the chicoms !?!?!? I see FRreepers calling for a chicom Boycott and seconds later a Post saying costco has this, costco that.

STOP BUYING STUFF FROM:

C hinese
O ver
S eas
T rading
CO mpany

To start with STOP buying things at that place !!!!!

Think about it. If Americans STOP BUYING FROM them and PUT them OUT OF BUSINESS ?!?!?

That would be a Serious Slap delivered by The AMERICAN PEOPLE and not The U.S. political idiots. THAT WOULD RATTLE SOME CHOPSTICKS IN beijing...

11 posted on 05/02/2020 2:25:32 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: mabarker1

Costco isn’t Chinese and its name isn’t an acronym. Probably nobody in China would care if Americans stopped shopping there.


12 posted on 05/02/2020 2:58:44 AM PDT by fluorescence
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To: mabarker1

Never been there; never will.


13 posted on 05/02/2020 4:57:22 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
Good for You !!! And AMERICA !!!

I've only been inside one like 3 times with BIL (one of those demonrats.) They just finished building a new store here in Town. Have no intention of even going in the door at this one.

14 posted on 05/02/2020 5:51:04 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: fluorescence

?Source Please?

Thank You.


15 posted on 05/02/2020 5:54:20 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

“British Doctors Say Ventilators Purchased From China Could Kill Coronavirus Patients”

ALL Ventilators Could Kill Coronavirus Patients

MOST DO!

For THIS disease, ventilators do more harm than good, FACT!

First, they don’t help AT ALL, so they can only harm the lungs.

It’s a BLOOD disease NOT a lung disease!


16 posted on 05/02/2020 9:51:26 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: a fool in paradise

“Can you find these knockoffs at the dollar store or on Amazon?”

probably just as soon as everyone returns the faulty goods to china, and they dump them into the usual discount channels ... heck, you might even soon see some “Central China” brand ventilators in Harbor Freight ...


17 posted on 05/02/2020 1:44:23 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: mabarker1

you’re thinking of walmart or the dollar stores ... costco probably has the least amount of chinese goods compared to the rest of the discount stores ...


18 posted on 05/02/2020 1:46:44 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: mabarker1

Costco is an American company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco


19 posted on 05/02/2020 1:50:38 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman

Harbor Freight.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown”


20 posted on 05/02/2020 1:53:13 PM PDT by HandyDandy (All right then I will go to hell. Huckleberry Finn)
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