Unfortunately the ventilator alone is insufficient. You also need a medical team to administer it, and they may choose not to expose themselves to the liabilit

Unfortunately the ventilator alone is insufficient. You also need a medical team to administer it, and they may choose not to expose themselves to the liability of using a ventilator of unknown provenance. I’m not a doctor but in this setting it seems that letting you die of a disease is much more palatable than killing you in an attempt to treat it.