Not so fast using CPAPs in place of ventilators. They could spread the coronavirus.

Not so fast using CPAPs in place of ventilators. They could spread the coronavirus.

Not so fast using CPAPs in place of ventilators. They could spread the coronavirus.

The limited supply of ventilators is one of the chief concerns facing hospitals as they prepare for more COVID-19 cases. In Italy, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients in respiratory failure, doctors have had to make difficult life-or-death decisions about who gets a ventilator and who does not.