Math quiz: A hospital has 2,200 ventilators available, and expects 350 will be needed each day this week. The average patient uses a ventilator for seven days. How many days of ventilator supply does the hospital have under these assumptions? #coronavirus #ventilators
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Depending on your assumptions, on day 7 the first batch leaves freeing up theirs for the next batch.
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For 20 days, you need 7000, so 4800 extra needed.
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If you simplify it, you need 20 days worth (7000), period. And you don't need most of those today. On day 21 you re assign the ones used on day 1. On day 22 you re assign the ones used on day 2. Etc. Why an extra 4,800?
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