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Originally Posted by Cynic

Here in tri-county Detroit area, we are reaching critical care bed capacity. Staff is to put their mask in the paper bag at the end of their shift, take it home, and bring it back to wear the NEXT day.
I sure wish someone had replenished our national stockpile 5-10 years ago. Ford and GM are taking point on ventilators but it all takes time. Some PPE is being created with 3-D printing. Yay us, I hope it's all in time.

Just reading about Cuomo complaining about the shortages.

Seems he had the chance in 2015 to get ventilators but elected to install a DNR board to handle the volume in the next disaster.

The task force discovered that were 7,250 ventilators in New York hospitals and about 1,900 in nursing homes – with most of them already in use. Even with the state’s own stockpile, that task force said there was only 2,800 total ventilators available, despite health officials’ warnings that a major outbreak could require 18,600 New Yorkers to be on the machines each week during the crisis’ peak.

Instead of buying the ventilators in 2015, the task force created a priority system for who would be put on a ventilator – red being the most dire, blue being the least – and assigned a triage officer, or “death panel” as Trump said, to make the life-or-death decisions.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...lators-in-2015