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Show me evidence that the mask shortage and the ventilator shortage will be resolved at any point in this pandemic please.
by Der_Einzige 7y ago
Show me evidence that the mask shortage and the ventilator shortage will be resolved at any point in this pandemic please.
- 99_00 7y agoMilitary releases 2,000 ventilators, up to 5 million masks for coronavirus response https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article241279361.html https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article24127936... Plus tens of thousands in the Strategic National Stockpile. The bottle neck will be low margin consumables items as we are seeing now with nasal swabs, plastic cups, pipet tips running out.
- robertoandred 7y ago2,000 ventilators and 5 million masks is nothing.
- trashtester 7y agoThinking that the pandemic will blow over before a sufficient amount of ventilators are available may actually be too optimistic. Car factories and similar manufacturing plants can probably be turned around in a matter of months, and will be able to produce millions of respirators over a year or two. The virus, unless properly contained, is likely to be a threat for at least 1-2 years, and that is assuming no significant mutations to restart the cycle. During WW2, the US started ordering Essex class carriers in 1940. Even though they were not present during the critical months of early 1942, they did turn the battle of the Pacific in 1943.