Cuomo and the DNC want to sell them.
I really doubt that $100 figure.
Wasn’t that an episode on MASH?
Yeah, a $100 ventilator will replace a $30,000 ventilator.
I’ve got some viruses to sell you.
This is gone down the memory hole.
Video here:
Prototype, but it has possibilities.
And waiting, waiting, still waiting,,,
We’re not going to have a problem with ventilators. We’ve got close to 200K available!
“Supply of mechanical ventilators in U.S. acute care hospitals: Based on a 2009 survey of AHA hospitals, U.S. acute care hospitals are estimated to own approximately 62,000 full-featured mechanical ventilators.10,11 Approximately 46% of these can be used to ventilate pediatric and neonatal patients. Additionally, some hospitals keep older models for emergency purposes. Older models, which are not full featured but may provide basic functions, add an additional 98,738 ventilators to the U.S. supply.10 The older devices include 22,976 noninvasive ventilators, 32,668 automatic resuscitators, and 8567 continuous positive airway pressure units.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) and other ventilator sources: The SNS has an estimated 12,700 ventilators for emergency deployment, according to recent public announcements from National Institutes of Health officials.12 These devices are also not full featured but offer basic ventilatory modes. In simulation testing they performed very well despite long-term storage.13 Accessing the SNS requires hospital administrators to request that state health officials ask for access to this equipment. SNS can deliver ventilators within 24-36 hours of the federal decision to deploy them. States may have their own ventilator stockpiles as well.14 Respiratory therapy departments also rent ventilators from local companies to meet either baseline and/or seasonal demand, further expanding their supply. Additionally, many modern anesthesia machines are capable of ventilating patients and can be used to increase hospitals’ surge capacity.
The addition of older hospital ventilators, SNS ventilators, and anesthesia machines increases the absolute number of ventilators to possibly above 200,000 units nationally. Many of the additional and older ventilators, however, may not be capable of sustained use or of adequately supporting patients with severe acute respiratory failure. Also, supplies for these ventilators may be unavailable due to interruptions in the international supply chain. Alternatively, ventilator manufacturers could be encouraged to rapidly produce modern full-featured ventilators to allow experienced clinicians to use supplemental ventilators that are familiar to them and can be readily incorporated into the hospital ventilator fleet and informatics systems. An analysis of the literature suggests, however, that U.S. hospitals could absorb a maximum of 26,000 to 56,000 additional ventilators at the peak of a national pandemic, as safe use of ventilators requires trained personnel.15”
https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19
$29,900 for lawyers and lobbyists to grease the wheels of government certification.
Which means a great idea is dead in the water.
Maybe 30 years before they get around to considering approving it.
"Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders – signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters."
Great. Now all you need to calculate is salaries, benefits, health-care costs for workers, taxes, factory building costs, inventory, equipment, maintenance, transport, medical liability insurance, sales, marketing, electricity and rent.
I made on today. I used a old hand tire pump and had the wife pump it while I tried it.
Near floated away.
MacGyver could have made one in five minutes from things in the janitors closet.
Another possibility:
This International Group Invented An Open Source Alternative That’s Being Tested Next Week (Mar 18, 2020)
DC will pay $100,000 each for them.
What about the oxygen input and flow control?