Ramping up a vacuum cleaner factory to produce ventilators will take much longer than trying to find a design that can turn a vacuum cleaner into a ventilator.

Ramping up a vacuum cleaner factory to produce ventilators will take much longer than trying to find a design that can turn a vacuum cleaner into a ventilator. What is solved with a novel design is the repurposing of a product that a factory already has the ability to produce.