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Old 09-30-2023, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
They may have stopped using them but not before at least a year later. In February, 2021 there was still a shortage.

The stockpile that exists today is as much due to the vaccine lessening the number of patients and the severity of the symptoms as anything else. There is no talk of ventilators being avoided, just that they are no longer needed in the same large numbers.
August 2020, per the WaPo...

"The U.S. forced major manufacturers to build ventilators. Now they’re piling up unused in a strategic reserve."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...rus-stockpile/

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