This project was started as a response to the COVID-19 crisis that began to spread in the United States in March 2002. Working from a 2010 student project in the MIT Medical Device design course, we hastily convened a volunteer team of clinicians, MIT researchers, students and alums to try and answer the question: Is it possible to safely ventilate a person by automatically actuating a manual resuscitator bag?

We decided to research and prototype as fast as we could and share our information publicly. Together, in four months we went from a concept to prototypes, to animal labs, to inspiring groups around the world to use our information and develop their own versions.

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	Researchers rush to fill gap in ventilator supply One MIT team is working to find a low-cost solution to the shortage of ventilator machines during the COVID-19 pandemic. April, 10, 2020
	MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator David L. Chandler, March 26, 2020
	MIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage David L. Chandler, April 20, 2020