There is ZERO evidence that we have a shortage of ventilators.
Seasonal influenza - at its peak in January and February - had NO shortage of ventilators.
We have had a minimum of 400,000 hospitalizations for influenza in the last 5.5 months.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are no where near that number.
If COVID-19 sends 20% of victims to the hospital - and it does not - that would be 20,000 hospitalizations in the last nine weeks for COVID-19.
Trump’s order for ventilators is based on a deranged prediction that we will have hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths.
For fifteen years we have had threads about avian flu risk and such that can prompt a cytokine blast similar to Spanish Infuenza and corona. All that time the numbers of ventilators has always been viewed as where modern medicine will fall short. The time-on-ventalator is triple that for flu with the current Corona.
And presumably you have some data establishing the percentage of influenza patients who need ventilators, and how long they are on the ventilator before case resolution. Would you be so kind as to share a link with us?
Stop the disinformation campaign...
CDC estimated that an average of 114,000 people were hospitalized as a result of influenza-associated infections each year
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm