Ventilators Quickly Scrapped

New Covid ventilators bought at $22,000 apiece were sold in a hurry as scrap to “further understand” the recycling business, the Department of Public Works says in an Access To Information document. Records show the ventilators bought under a sole-sourced $169.5 million contract were scrapped even while the pandemic was ongoing: “This has not been a cheap enterprise.”

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