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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by maxerickson on Sunday March 22, 2020 @09:57AM (#22654959)
For the US, the potential needs is in the millions and the current ventilator count is 100,000 (plus or minus tens of thousands).

I think we probably agree that industrial production is the way forward, but the numbers are not particularly comfortable.

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Re:'Pandemic ventilator' could offer solution in potential '... by mike_d on Sunday March 22, 2020 @03:38PM (#22657884)
> potential needs is in the millions and the current ventilator count is 100,000

There are only 96,596 ICU hospital beds in the United States according to the AHA. As I said, ventilators are already solved to the point that something else is the bottleneck.

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