I wonder how fast we could ramp production of ventilators?
What’s the production rate in the US now?
What could we ramp it too?
How fast can they be produced?
What’s the current backlog of orders?
Can we drive the cost down with volume?
Are there cheaper alternatives, ventilators without as many options, that could be produced?
Just googling it looks like prices range from $500 TO $6000.
Seems like we should buy another 100,000 at $500 = $50 million. Depending on how fast they can be delivered.
We just passed an $8.3 billion bill.
“Seems like we should buy another 100,000 at $500 = $50 million.”
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https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
“Around 20% of cases require hospitalization, 5% of cases require the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and around 2.5% require very intensive help, with items such as ventilators or ECMO (extra-corporeal oxygenation).
The problem is that items such as ventilators and ECMO can’t be produced or bought easily. A few years ago, the US had a total of 250 ECMO machines, for example.
So if you suddenly have 100,000 people infected, many of them will want to go get tested. Around 20,000 will require hospitalization, 5,000 will need the ICU, and 1,000 will need machines that we don’t have enough of today. And that’s just with 100,000 cases.”
The machines are made in China to make them.