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0 pointsmaxerickson6y ago0 comments

For the US, the potential needs is in the millions and the current ventilator count is 100,000 (plus or minus tens of thousands).

I think we probably agree that industrial production is the way forward, but the numbers are not particularly comfortable.

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mike_d6y ago

> potential needs is in the millions and the current ventilator count is 100,000

There are only 96,596 ICU hospital beds in the United States according to the AHA. As I said, ventilators are already solved to the point that something else is the bottleneck.

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mike_d6y ago

> potential needs is in the millions and the current ventilator count is 100,000

There are only 96,596 ICU hospital beds in the United States according to the AHA. As I said, ventilators are already solved to the point that something else is the bottleneck.

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