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Certainly not the most common forms of mild to moderate. Reporter with asthma, the airways that caughtary to the lungs are imflamed with with covid19, its more of a disease of the air sacs where oxygen gets into your blood and causes a very severe pneumonia. Really asthma should not put you at risk for getting a severe pneumonia like that. Reporter even so, dr. Fahey advising any respiratory infection can make your asthma worse. People need to be aware that their asthma could exacerbate, as we say, if they get covid 19. Reporter however, an intended impact of the pandemic, the availability of inhalers. As a matter of fact, i have been carrying around an inhaler asthma attack. Reporter in hospitals, larger doses are usually given through a machine that uses a nebulizer mask. Now hospitals are using albuterol inhalers inside. They dont tend to generate the droplets these machines do, just a mist that you enhail into your own body. Reporter some areas of the country were now experiencing
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This is the. Here is our first group of semifinalists a freshman at northwestern university, from evanston, illinois. A sophomore at the university of florida, from longwood, florida. And a senior at indiana university, from greenfield, indiana. And now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek [cheers and applause] thank you, johnny gilbert. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. To the first of our semifinal matches in this Years College championship. Only the winner of todays game gets to come back later this week to play for 100,000. Thats a lot of money, and i do want to thank lending tree for being our sponsor this year. Hope you guys had an enjoyable easter weekend. Now we put you to work. Good luck. Here are the categories. Followed by. Then you deal with. Youre gonna love this one. And finally. Each correct response beginning with that letter of the alphabet. And, tyler, speaking of beginning, you get to make the first selection. Id like to take arts culture for 1,000, alex. This lon
Ave to hospitals. E getting bathose ators, othn veanothesar currently being refurbished. Reporter the governor made sure to emphasize that the vents are on loan and could be called back at a moments noce here. To the extent that other americans need our support, our largess, well be there for as people as we possibly can, but know this, were also taking care of our 40 million in california as well. And at the same time, bay area businesses are ramping up production of ventilators. We got a tour of evolve Manufacturing Technologies in fremont today. The company normally makes medical devices such ou b analysis mneve is switching ove ventilators. The company is setting up a new production line, and it will makeup to 50,000 machines a month. In normal times, a ventilator would probably take 6 months in an ordinary cycle to get. With tremendous trouble, maybe 3 months is very, very aggressive. So everybody is trying to really do the impossible right now. More than 350 businesses and manufa