For all the blather that the EU is just like a United States of Europe, I do note that Germany and the EU don’t appear to have stepped into breach with the additional ICU and ventilator capacity that has been apparently needed in Northern Italy the last two weeks.
Italy is about a week ahead of the rest of Europe except for the UK and they do have a vent shortage. In fact hey have asked car manufacturers to to make them. https://www.theengineer.co.uk/uk-government-manufacturers-ventilators-nhs/