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A team of engineers and scientists in Medellin were able to create a

prototype of a low-cost open source ventilator that could save countless
lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
The lack of mechanical ventilators that allow patients to get enough
oxygen while fighting the respiratory illness is a major bottleneck in
Colombia, which has less than 10,000 of these mechanical ventilators.

But Colombia isn’t the only country that could soon run out of these life-
saving, but complex and expensive machines; hospitals across the globes
are short of the machines and production is limited.

A week after Stanford University scientist Daniel Kraft called for a global
medical hackathon to create a low-cost and open source ventilator,
engineer Mauricio Toro of the Antioquia University announced was
putting the final touches on a prototype.
“It’s alive!” Toro said on his “Let’s Beat Covid-19” blog after getting the
pneumatic ventilator working on Wednesday.

On Friday, the ventilator “has basic controls and pumps, solenoid valves,
and pressure and flow sensors. Tests are being initiated with specialized
equipment to analyze and compare the ventilatory signals,” the Medellin
mechanic announced.

“Parallel to the development of the prototype, we’re working on the design

of technical protocols for the execution of verification, performance and
commissioning tests,” said Toro.

What we want is to share all the codes and

information to assemble these prototypes so that
anyone in the country who has the capabilities can
start producing them and that all the materials
needed to assemble them can be found here in the
domestic market.
Mauricio Toro

Toro said on Twitter that the team from Medellin has been sharing its
designs and experiences with the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
from the Florida to create a variant that could be licensed for use in the
US.

In Colombia, the team and a consortium of Medellin innovation institutes

and companies are in close contact with the government’s medical
licensing institute Invima to be granted a license as soon as the complex
machine meets all the requirements.

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"Awake O Dead, for there can be no rest for ye beneath the earth. Let the splintered bones burrow
from the grave pall. Let cold fingers grip time-worn blades, and unseeing eyes survey the fields of
slaughter. For your time has come once more. And the dead shall walk again."

—Motto of the Sylvania Press.

The Vampire Counts are amongst the most legendary faction of Vampires to have ever terrorised
the civilised lands of the Old World, all of whom are known to be the bearer of the unholy blood of
the Von Carstein bloodline. From the Imperial government and the patriotic citizenry of
the Empire of Man, the Vampire Counts are considered by many to be fiends without equal. They
seek only to topple the civilisations of the living and supplant them with an Undead Empire that
shall reign forever as Lords of the Night. The Vampire Counts are powerful necromancers as well
as warriors, given supernatural enhancements to their strength, cunning, beauty and ambition.
However, these Vampires, for all their power and cunning, are ultimately base, selfish creatures
driven by the same motivations of the mortals they deem themselves superior to. They are
remorseless in their advance, killing without thought of mercy or compassion, and whose motive is
entirely bent on ones own selfish desire.

Bonus

Appearing in the year 1111 IC, the Black Death, so named for the spreading black spots it caused
on the skin as the victim was consumed, was first seen in the southern areas of the Old World,
causing many to believe that it had been spread by Tilean tradesmen. Communication at the time
was limited, and it was only when the disease decimated the streets of Nuln and Talabheim that
the true extent of the epidemic became known.

Known also as the Black Plague, the Great Plague, or simply the Plague, the disease was fast-
spreading and fast-acting, killing its victims in days if not hours after the symptoms presented. No
known medicine could help, and the speed of the disease provided no time to study it. The disease
was soon thought to be unstoppable, with supplication to the Gods thought to be the only way to
be spared. Both the low and high born suffered, and in 1115 Emperor Goldgather himself was
declared a victim of the sickness (although in truth he was killed by the shuriken of a Clan
Eshin Assassin). By then, the Empire’s population had been reduced to less than half the size of the
generation before.

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