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That is not the UK experience. In the UK, ramping of manufacturing of existing ventilators has been more successful than expected, and social distancing has kep
by rkangel 7y ago
That is not the UK experience. In the UK, ramping of manufacturing of existing ventilators has been more successful than expected, and social distancing has kept the demand on the NHS to a manageable level. Together that has meant that we haven't needed emergency designs.
Whether that is true in other countries is a different matter.
- arcticfox 7y agoI'm not sure about developing countries, but I think by this point developed countries are probably on the right track to not need emergency-design ventilators. That said, I hope the most promising of these designs get carried through to 'production-ready', in case we get hit with something even worse than COVID in the future, which is easy to imagine. Basically the US govt attempt detailed in this story, but with a sucessful conclusion instead of a failure. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-v...