A New York hospital is treating two patients on a device"... A New York hospital is putting two patients at a time on ventilators intended for one, a stopgap move that reflects the desperate shortage of ... - Washington Post 3/27/2020
I think they were talking about the possibility of this....but no one was doing it.
If there’s 2000 ventilators in a NY warehouse, and a hospital is doubling up patients, then there’s something wrong with the logistics in NYC. Putting more in the warehouse won’t help.