Of course there is a finite number of ventilators. Ventilators don’t grow on trees. And nobody knows how many they will need. We dont know how many people will be infected. We don’t know how many people will need a ventilator. So asking, “do we have enough?” is not a question that can be answered by anyone.
I don’t think Tucker would be happy with any answer. Because if she answered with a range, he’d then have a doctor on that would disagree with the range given. No one has any idea how bad this outbreak will be.
Ultimately....Do we have enough hospital beds? No. we don’t. Neither does Europe. No one does. That’s why Italy is totally f****ed. But this has been a problem for a long, long time. We don’t have enough doctors or nurses either. We don’t have a million doctors on reserve that can just be called up in a time of crisis like soldiers. No country does. China had to create makeshift hospitals using tents and force businesses to close and force workers to volunteer for healthcare work.
So what answer do you want? No country’s healthcare system is prepared to be flooded by millions of people in a short time period. None! And screaming it every single night on cable news and creating panic isn’t helping anyone.
We’re going to have to assume something like this is going to happen every ten years or so. It’s like planning for Hurricane season, it just comes from having a mobile world.