Medical data modelers are indicating the need for tens-of-thousands (or hundreds-of-thousands) of ventilators.
Gov. Cuomo has understandably been clamoring for 40,000 ventilators … just for New York.
Ventilators are being redeployed from hospitals in low virus-infected areaa to the nation’s hot spots.
President Trump has emptied the national stockpile of ventilators, enlisted corporate volunteers (e.g. Ford, GE) to produce ventilators and activated the DPA to get GM into the ventilator business.
Innovative med-tech companies and university researchers are making ventilators using 3-D copiers. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have designed a basic MacGyver-like ventilator that is being prototype produced.
Sounds like a reasonable medical priority … and impressive multi-sourced response. I’m all in for going full throttle on ventilators.
That said, I’m curious …
The implied underlying assumption is that ventilators will save a lot of lives.
Is that a valid assumption?
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