Governor Newsom: Company fixing faulty ventilators

California has stocked up on ventilators and fixing outdated ones in anticipation of a shortage at hospitals in the coming days.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Saturday that the federal government sent 170 broken ventilators from the national stockpile.

Engineers at Bloom Energy, a fuel cell maker in the San Francisco Bay Area, were racing to refurbish the ventilators and send them to hospitals.

He added that the ventilators will be heading back to Los Angeles on Monday.

He also said that Bloom is refurbishing hundreds of ventilators that the state had kept in storage for years.