Companies and individuals from all over the world are coming together to try and do what they can to combat the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. This includes gaming companies like Razer, who is manufacturing surgical masks to help protect hospital workers. Now another gaming company, MAINGEAR, has also joined in, producing a valuable tool that's in extremely short supply.
MAINGEAR is known for its custom PCs that are built to the buyer's specifications, along with other gaming peripherals. Now, however, the company is retooling its existing PC cases to act as cases for the brand new pulmonary ventilators the company is building.
Ventilators are a necessary tool to help keep critically ill patients breathing. MAINGEAR's ventilator, called LIV, is currently awaiting FDA approval, so unfortunately hospitals won't be benefiting from the ventilators right away. But given the crisis at hand, that may change in the very near future. However, there's good news, too. The ventilator will allegedly cost a mere quarter of what standard ventilators cost to produce, which should help to make them affordable for hospitals that have been financially strapped by the crisis.
While companies like Nintendo donating surgical masks is an extremely important step to protecting everyone from this virus, ventilators are needed for the hardest hit by COVID-19. One can only hope that tech companies like MAINGEAR are able to help meet the overwhelming demands for more ventilators so that as many lives can be saved as possible.