Or rather: one small US ventilator company says it can ramp up production by 5x in 3 to 4 months. From your link: “We could increase production five-fold in a

Or rather: one small US ventilator company says it can ramp up production by 5x in 3 to 4 months. From your link: “We could increase production five-fold in a 90- to 120-day period,” says Chris Kiple, chief executive of Ventec Life Systems ... The seven-year-old, 135-employee Ventec is a fairly small player in a market dominated by Medtronic (under the Puritan Bennett brand), GE Healthcare and Allied Healthcare in the U.S. Not to mention that there's a big difference between producing ventilators at 5x the current rate and having 5x as many total ventilators available.