New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday explained that a basic problem facing hospitals in his state and around the country in the worsening coronavirus outbreak is a shortage of the equipment that helps critically ill people breathe.
“It’s all about the ventilators,” Cuomo said during a press briefing in Albany on the state’s response to the crisis.
On the current trajectory of cases, Cuomo said, in 45 days there could be a need for 37,000 ventilators in New York, a state that currently has only 3,000. Respirator masks protect the mouth and nose of the person wearing them and can filter contaminants from the air that they breathe. Story continuesWhen it comes to ventilators, one estimate is that — worst-case — the total number of ventilators needed nationally would be around 740,000, but there are only around 160,000 available in the U.S. medical system.
But it’s not clear whether that’s even feasible. Ventilators are complex devices. Jeff Bialos, a former Pentagon official in charge of industrial policy under President Bill Clinton, explained to Yahoo News that machines like ventilators require at least three things that take significant time to compile: specialized tooling that requires production line workers with specific skills, the raw materials to make each part, and the ability to meet standards.
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