Family of the late physicist gives breathing machine to medical center in Cambridge where he received treatment, so it can be used for COVID-19 patients

Medics and engineers can make ventilators with basic parts costing $500 and a downloaded blueprint designed in Israel

Military says jury-rigged devices can perform the same function as far more expensive ventilators, if needed in the case of a large outbreak

Israel is currently trying to boost its own stocks and has an export ban in place that blocked sale of life-saving machines; 100 ventilators arrive from US

Plane from Seoul also carries some 50,000 personal protective suits for Israeli medical staff

With reports of unusually high death rates for those on breathing machines, some practitioners are turning to other measures when possible

Plane touches down with masks and protective suits; additional shipments will include ventilators

Defense Ministry says first flight with 900,000 surgical masks and half a million protective suits will arrive Monday; additional shipments will include ventilators

What sounds like an organized crime thriller is now the new reality for governors desperately trying to find the medical equipment their states need in the throes of a pandemic

New York City hospitals are filling up with COVID-19 patients, and officials fear they will soon run out of breathing machines for intensive care patients