Respiratory therapists are the ones who track Covid-19 patients’ oxygen levels, manage their breathing and, if need be, intubate them and set up a mechanical ventilator.

DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. So about 2% of people with the coronavirus are expected to develop respiratory problems so severe they'll need to be put on ventilators. There is a shortage of those ...

Eight years ago, a group of BYU engineering students started a project to create a neonatal ventilator for premature babies born in third-world countries. Today, several iterations later, that ...

As it did for almost all respiratory therapists in the world, the pandemic changed Pennewill’s job. All of a sudden, ventilators everywhere were needed for a huge number of COVID-stricken patients.