We need to develop a strategic reserve of 1,000,000+ emergency ventilators ASAP. These don't need to be fancy medical ventilators, they just need to work.

Assuming containment has failed, the biggest cause of suffering and deaths from COVID-19 will be from a lack of ventilators. And any rationing of ventilators could trigger mass panic.

There are ~160,000 ventilators in the US now....

We need to develop a strategic reserve of 1,000,000+ emergency ventilators ASAP. These don't need to be fancy medical ventilators, they just need to work.

Assuming containment has failed, the biggest cause of suffering and deaths from COVID-19 will be from a lack of ventilators. And any rationing of ventilators could trigger mass panic.

There are ~160,000 ventilators in the US now....