A view of the production facility of U.S. health care company Baxter International in the state of North-Rhine Wetsphalia in Halle, Germany on Jan. 15, 2021. Credit - Sascha Schuermann—Getty Images ...

Though Philips recently expanded its ongoing respiratory device recall to include around 5.2 million machines, that list left off a handful of ventilators that weren’t affected by the original issue.

In a classic “two steps forward, one step back” situation, just as Philips is aiming to wrap up the repair-and-replace program for the 5.5 million respiratory devices it began recalling two years ago, ...