This isn’t easy - ECMO is in (very) short supply, Australia during swine flu had somewhere around 50 nationally (cf 2000 vents) + you need a cardiothoracic surg

This isn’t easy - ECMO is in (very) short supply, Australia during swine flu had somewhere around 50 nationally (cf 2000 vents) + you need a cardiothoracic surgeon to put it in + nursing care is even more intense than for ventilator care. You can’t easily scale this and it isn’t without significant downside as well