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For more background info on what is needed for a ventilator and why it isn't that simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22779665 https://news.ycombinator

• Retric 7y ago
  The Tesla prototype seems much closer to a medical ventilator than most of the overly simplified models shown in that video. Working Medtronic is likely a large advantage here. Adjusting air temperature and humidity seems like the biggest missing piece.
  • kiba 7y ago
    This is a very good point. I incorporated the fact that they have access to Medtronic engineers into my post, or at least they have Elon Musk who can talk to their engineers.
  • mceachen 7y ago
    The schematic on the whiteboard had a humidifier component, fwiw.
• baybal2 7y ago
  Indeed, all what I saw in last few weeks on other side of the Pacific were not advancing past what Chines factories without any prior health device engineering experience were able to come with in the first month. To add to that, most of those factories don't even have real engineers with 6 years long education. I think this is the best proof to the immense potency of Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V approach to doing things. America is loosing a lot by shying away from it.
• mschuster91 7y ago
  That video's author says he worked for Medtronic. Well... coincidental or not: Medtronic bought up Covidien, who have been alleged to intentionally sabotage a contract with the US government for a national ventilator stockpile back in 2012: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...