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Stephen Hawking’s Ventilator to Be Used by U.K. Hospital in Coronavirus Fight

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By Tim Dams The ventilator used by celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking has been donated to a hospital in Cambridge, U.K., to help treat patients with coronavirus.

Hawking, the subject of Academy Award-winning biopic “The Theory of Everything,” died in 2018 from motor neurone disease, aged 76.

The ventilator has been donated to the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, where Hawking lived, as it cares for increasing numbers of patients with coronavirus.

Hawking’s daughter Lucy said: “After our father passed away, we returned all the medical equipment he used that belonged to the NHS (National Health Service), but there were some items that he bought for himself.

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