Elon Musk delivers hundreds of ventilators bought in China to US

The Hill ^ | 03/24/20 | Marty Johnson

[Fido969]

Why does China have surplus ventilators?

Because the former users died.

Clean the heck out of those buggers.

[puppypusher]

Put your life at risk on a Chinese made ventilator.No thanks.

That equipment should be made here.

[bert]

BY GM?

Give me a break

[nascarnation]

I saw a story today the Ford design uses a bunch of the HVAC parts from the world’s largest selling vehicle the F150 pickup.
Brilliant! Stuff that’s in the pipeline and mfg every day.

[Vermont Lt]

I hope their supply chain doesn’t include China. Ha ha.

Next Remington Typewriter will start making them.

[nascarnation]

GM is going to mfg theirs in Kokomo Indiana in cooperation with Ventec.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-ventilators/gm-accelerates-project-v-to-build-ventilators-in-indiana-idUSKBN21A2Y4

[GOPJ]

That equipment should be made here.

I suspect it will be made here in the future... that said a big thanks to Elon Musk ...

[Redwood71]

“Manufacturer’s rejects?!?”

Nope, just overstocked estimation. A new study reports that people who became sick from the coronavirus in the Chinese city where the outbreak began likely had a lower death rate than previously thought.

The study, published Thursday in the journal Nature Medicine, calculated that people with coronavirus symptoms in Wuhan, China, had a 1.4 percent likelihood of dying. Some previous estimates have ranged from 2 percent to 3.4 percent.

The estimate in the US is very low in comparison to our population. Here’s a good site to keep the stats by John Hopkins University and Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center if you’re interested:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html

rwood

[catnipman]

good for Elon!

[Moonman62]

These are American brand ventilators. They may have been made in America.

[polymuser]

I hope Trump can use this crisis to nail medical suppliers for greatly overpriced medical products, like ventilators.

I hope Trump can use this crisis to nail the CDC for being unprepared. I hope he cleans that house thoroughly and puts them back to their original
mission.

I hope Trump can use this crisis to nail the healthcare system for vendor-reliance and vendor-control in their preparedness and stocking.

I hope Trump can use this crisis to nail The Democrats and The MSM for politicizing and profiting from this pandemic. I hope he can put many of them in prison.