Forgive me if this is a cold question; I genuinely want to understand the answer. Isn't a 90% death rate of coronavirus patients on ventilators somewhat in tension with the message that we have to do everything in our power to flatten the curve so we don't run out of ventilators?
The point of treating the number of ventilators as a hard limit was that personnel can be trained much faster than new ventilator factories can be built.