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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Here's a link: The US Strategic National Stockpile Ventilators in Coronavirus Disease 2019 - PMC
The layman's takeaway: the government, in early 2020 (previous administration) ordered 200,000 ventilators. Unfortunately, the people ordering them, didn't clearly understand that different types of machines are made to handle different types of illness, and they just said "hey make whatever, and lots."
But around half of them were useless with COVID. And so - there's a stockpile of unused, unneeded ventilators now - even though there was a shortage of ventilators that could actually help with the first wave of the COVID crisis. |
Thank you. Your link proves what I said. There was a shortage in 2019 and 2020... But the orders started decreasing in the summer of 2020...
And of course, they don't mention that the use of ventilators waned early on in the pandemic...
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