Czech volunteers develop functioning lung ventilator in days

PRAGUE (AP) — A group volunteers in the Czech Republic was working round the clock to prevent critical shortage of ventilators for COVID-19 patients, something that happened in northern Italy. Led by Tomas Kapler, an IT expert who had nothing to do with lung ventilators before, a team of 30 developed a fully functional ventilator in just days. They secured the necessary finances through crowdfunding, approached a leading expert in the field with a request for help and gave him all possible