Engineers launched crash programs for ventilators. What will happen to them?

Re:Engineers launched crash programs for ventilators. What w... by inetsee on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:00PM (#23635280)

I find it interesting that this article implies that the US will not need more than the number of ventilators it already has, while at the same time another article linked here on HN (Experts warn parts of U.S. on verge of being overwhelmed by Covid-19 resurgence https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-world-june... ) warns of the US being overwhelmed by a resurgence of COVID-19. I'm somewhat more inclined to give credibility to IEEE, but a lot of news outlets are reporting significant increases in cases lately.

Who am I supposed to believe?

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Re:Engineers launched crash programs for ventilators. What w... by icedistilled on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:38PM (#23635515)

See the other comment about how up to 90% of patients put on a ventilator died and those who lived have terrible problems.

Also, we learned some since the start of the pandemic and have better techniques of preventing hospitalized cases from needing ventilators.

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Re:Engineers launched crash programs for ventilators. What w... by redis_mlc on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:26PM (#23636578)

I just follow SF hospital mortality data a couple times per week (flat for months.)

The news is simply noise, and there's no science yet on corona as a pandemic.

Go for a daily walk to maintain your cardio health.

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