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It's good they're getting made, but the quantity and timeline is problematic. The US has on the order of 100,000 ventilators, and needs on the order of 1 millio
by woofie11 7y ago
It's good they're getting made, but the quantity and timeline is problematic. The US has on the order of 100,000 ventilators, and needs on the order of 1 million.
1000 per month won't really do much. It's a start is all.
- jansan 7y agoWhat do you do with 1 million ventilators if you do not have the personnel to operate them? It's not just plugging a tube into the patient's throat and switching that machine on. Also, i doubt 1 million is a realistic figure. I don't think things will get that bad.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoNormally a flu epidemic ultimately infects 1/3 of US population. If 2% need a ventilator we need 3 million. The numbers are not pretty, however you run them.
- woofie11 7y agoWhy not? When I run the numbers on what happens if we don't stop this thing, that's where they land. Perhaps we'll stop it. Then we won't need them. Perhaps we won't. Then we will. I'd rather have them than play dice with a million lives. The million number already has a discount over the worst-case, by the way. Worst-case, all 330 million people catch this, 5% end up critical, and we need >15 million. And yes, we would need to train up people to run them. It'd be a real mess.