Could you put ventilators in trucks and drive them from hotspot to hotspot as the bottleneck moves?
Could ventilators be timeshared with a rotating valve? 2 people with milder oxygenation needs share in 5 minute shifts...
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I doubt there is a very wide region of parameter space where moving ventilators around would be significantly helpful
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think people stay on the ventilators for ~8-10 days, so unclear that hotspot will be very mobile
could move between cities with planes, but every unhit city would be worried about getting theirs back in time..
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We already know who will be driving the truck!
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The federal government must distribute ventilators based on need.
We need them in New York NOW.
After New York gets past the apex of this pandemic, I will transport the ventilators myself wherever they are next needed.
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Cuomo seems to me thinking/pushing on both (ventilator sharing is not simple though)
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