Why don’t you tell me?
A pneumonic patient is not a Matrix pod person, that’s Hollywood.
So Italians made SCUBA ventilators, great! It’s a great story!
I hope that Ford and GM make thousands of ventilators too.
Numbers of machines doesn’t solve the human element.
In Italy, they went from one respiratory therapist per ventilator up to 4 per ventilator, as staff got infected and sick and lost to the fight.
And subsequently, the number of dead Italians increased.
So yes, maybe we can train “mechanics” in one day to run brand new mass-produced Ford/GM/Tesla ventilators.
At what loss in quality/death rate?
My only point is that brand new ventilators DO NOT run themselves.
Respiratory therapists are not minted overnight.
And if you put “one week wonders” in charge of brand new mass-produced ventilators, don’t expect optimal results.
It’s easier and faster to make a machine than a trained respiratory therapist.
That’s all I’m trying to say.
So let’s get this straight. A trained operator tells me to push button A and check on the patient every 15 minutes, gives me responsibility for 5 patients then they go out to train someone else. You think that the patient would be better off with no ventilator at all?
The lack of trained respiratory therapists should be solved by the use of robots. They would not get sick from exposure to disease, would not need sleep, can be set with the required parameters and can perform tasks perfectly thousands of times. We should be using the millions of dollars wasted by the CDC on kooky studies (What makes gays gain weight) to develop medical robots that can perform in hospital settings.