Ford will make ventilators for GE, joining General Motors

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Ford is the latest automaker to announce that it will start making desperately needed ventilators that are crucial for treating the worst symptoms of COVID-19. The automaker announced Monday that it will manufacture ventilators for General Electric’s health care division, which has licensed a “simplified” design that does not need electricity from a Florida ventilator company called Airon.

Ford has already been working with GE to increase production of its own ventilators. It will soon start helping Airon increase the company’s production capacity in Florida. And Ford is helping make masks and protective hoods for health care workers.

Ford will pay 500 United Auto Workers-represented volunteer employees to build the ventilators at one...

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