Getting Ventilators to the Front Lines

Getting Ventilators to the Front Lines

51³Ô¹Ï delivers retrofitted ventilators to MEMA.
Photo by Logan Kirkland

April 8, 2020

51³Ô¹Ï Paul B. Jacob High Voltage Laboratory Manager David Wallace loads a crate of retrofitted ventilators onto a Mississippi Emergency Management Agency truck for transport to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson on Wednesday [April 8]. The shipment includes the last of the 550 ventilators that 51³Ô¹Ï worked with Louisville-based Taylor Machine Works to convert from battery to AC power, enhancing their use in the state's COVID-19 response.