HHS Terminating Ventilator Contracts With Hamilton, Vyaire

Aug. 31, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

Health and Human Services Dept is prematurely ending ventilator contracts with Vyaire Medical and Hamilton Medical, according to a spokesperson for the dept.

  • Other contracts have supplied enough ventilators to meet maximum national capacity in a crisis: spokesperson
  • Vyaire will deliver no more than 4,000 ventilators and Hamilton will deliver no more than 4,518 in total
  • Related: House Panel Opens Probe of Contracts Negotiated by Navarro: CNBC

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