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Hendrik_2000

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After initially downplaying this virus Musk american industrialist step up the plate and take initiative

Elon Musk Ships 1,200 Ventilators From China To Los Angeles
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Topline: The Tesla CEO has been a prominent skeptic of the coronavirus crisis, branding the pandemic “dumb” but on Monday confirmed that he had donated 1,200 ventilators to Los Angeles to help the city’s fight against the pneumonia-like virus.

  • The Tesla CEO tweeted that he had bought 1,255 FDA-approved medical ventilators from China on Friday evening and had them flown into Los Angeles.
  • “Elon Musk: How about this? I told you a few days ago he was likely to have 1,000 ventilators this week,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom at a
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    on Monday. ““They arrived in Los Angeles, and Elon Musk is already working with the hospital association and others to get those ventilators out in real time. It’s an heroic effort.”
  • The entrepreneur thanked the Tesla China team and customs officials in China and Los Angeles for facilitating the shipment of the medical devices, which are a crucial tool in treating patients with respiratory symptoms from Covid-19.
    Musk has drawn fire for tweeting “
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    at U.S. hospitals.
  • Tesla and General Motors have promised to build ventilators but have not confirmed when production will begin.
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    also tweeted on March 21, 2020, that he had spoken with medical device maker Medtronic.
Key background: The United States only has around
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, mechanical breathing machines crucial to support the lives of critically ill patients, in hospitals, with a further 12,700 in its
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but the American Hospital Association has estimated that 960,000 Americans could need to rely on the medical devices to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic.
National governments and hospitals around the world have scrambled to place orders for ventilators from medical device manufacturers, who have limited production capacity, as doctors in Italy, the worst cluster of coronavirus outside China, were
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which patients would receive the lifesaving support of a ventilator.

Crucial quote: “Yup, China had an oversupply, so we bought 1255 FDA-approved ResMed, Philips & Medtronic ventilators on Friday night & airshipped them to LA. If you want a free ventilator installed, please let us know!” said Elon Musk in a tweet on Monday.

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After initially downplaying this virus Musk american industrialist step up the plate and take initiative

Elon Musk Ships 1,200 Ventilators From China To Los Angeles
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Forbes Staff
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  • Elon Musk, coronavirus, covid-19, pandemic, epidemic, virus, ventilators, tesla, SpaceX
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has confirmed via Twitter that his shipment of 1,200 ventilators has ... [+]
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Topline: The Tesla CEO has been a prominent skeptic of the coronavirus crisis, branding the pandemic “dumb” but on Monday confirmed that he had donated 1,200 ventilators to Los Angeles to help the city’s fight against the pneumonia-like virus.

  • The Tesla CEO tweeted that he had bought 1,255 FDA-approved medical ventilators from China on Friday evening and had them flown into Los Angeles.
  • “Elon Musk: How about this? I told you a few days ago he was likely to have 1,000 ventilators this week,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom at a
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    on Monday. ““They arrived in Los Angeles, and Elon Musk is already working with the hospital association and others to get those ventilators out in real time. It’s an heroic effort.”
  • The entrepreneur thanked the Tesla China team and customs officials in China and Los Angeles for facilitating the shipment of the medical devices, which are a crucial tool in treating patients with respiratory symptoms from Covid-19.
    Musk has drawn fire for tweeting “
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    ” and that children were “
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    ” to the virus, and questioning that there would be a
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    at U.S. hospitals.
  • Tesla and General Motors have promised to build ventilators but have not confirmed when production will begin.
  • The
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    also tweeted on March 21, 2020, that he had spoken with medical device maker Medtronic.
Key background: The United States only has around
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, mechanical breathing machines crucial to support the lives of critically ill patients, in hospitals, with a further 12,700 in its
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but the American Hospital Association has estimated that 960,000 Americans could need to rely on the medical devices to breathe during the coronavirus pandemic.
National governments and hospitals around the world have scrambled to place orders for ventilators from medical device manufacturers, who have limited production capacity, as doctors in Italy, the worst cluster of coronavirus outside China, were
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which patients would receive the lifesaving support of a ventilator.

Crucial quote: “Yup, China had an oversupply, so we bought 1255 FDA-approved ResMed, Philips & Medtronic ventilators on Friday night & airshipped them to LA. If you want a free ventilator installed, please let us know!” said Elon Musk in a tweet on Monday.

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I wonder how the HK TW FLG propaganda complex will spin this and still try to convince the world that China has millions of deaths.

"Don't take it! It's all loaded with viruses"
"They're all dead so no one to use these on"
 

Hendrik_2000

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Building Ventilator is not so easy It is complicated machinery and need skill worker to build it I am sure GE, Rolls royce and Ferrari can built it over time. But it takes time Meantime the only working factory that can ramp up the production are all in China
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China’s factories work 24/7 to build medical ventilators for Milan, New York amid spreading global Covid-19 pandemic
  • As the global death toll from the coronavirus crosses 15,000, doctors from Milan to New York are desperately seeking ventilators
  • In severe cases, the availability of a ventilator can determine if a Covid-19 patient lives or dies

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Published: 11:51am, 24 Mar, 2020

A ventilator of Hamilton Medical is transported on a conveyor at a plant in Domat/Ems, Switzerland on March 18, 2020. Photo: Reuters


A ventilator of Hamilton Medical is transported on a conveyor at a plant in Domat/Ems, Switzerland on March 18, 2020. Photo: Reuters

About a 40-minute drive to the east of China’s capital, Beijing Aeonmed has been working around the clock since January 20.

After meeting the country’s needs two weeks ago, its factory lines have been working flat out on orders from overseas for its life-saving ventilators. With three shifts and even research and development staff working the production line, the company’s machines have been going non-stop.
“There’s literally no country in the world that doesn’t want to buy a ventilator from China right now.” said Li Kai, director of Beijing Aeonmed, “We have tens of thousands of orders waiting. The issue is how fast we can make them.”

As the global death toll from the coronavirus crosses 15,000, doctors from Milan to New York are desperately seeking ventilators. In severe cases, the availability of a ventilator that can help a Covid-19 patient breathe can determine if he or she lives or dies. Late last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the state, which has about 5,000 to 6,000 ventilators, might need 30,000 of them.


“It’s ventilators, ventilators, ventilators,” Cuomo told reporters. “That is the greatest need.” The state “has people in China shopping for ventilators,” he said.

Overall in the US, the Society of Critical Care Medicine estimates that 960,000 patients would need ventilator support due to Covid-19, but the nation only has about 200,000 such machines. In Italy, the country with the most number of fatalities from the pandemic, a severe ventilator shortage has forced doctors to triage patients.
 

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Cant see article because of pay wall (Or maybe I’m just being dumb?)

But going off just the title, the work doesn’t need to be thousands of new ventilator designs, that would actually be massively counter productive as it would needlessly complicate supply chains and undue burden training, operating, maintenance and repairs etc with so many different types of ventilators potentially all having different parts and operating methods.

There just needs to be a few different types, and the world needs to turn them out like hot cakes. The only justification for having different types of ventilators is if there are specific medical needs for different functions or operating modes etc.
 

Chish

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The table below would frighten anybody. The US has more than 10,000 case surge in a single day while Italy has not managed to slow the spread yet though they have had the whole country under lockdown. What a world we are living in!
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Italy spread rate is coming down in the last few days, from over 790 to just over 600. It takes weeks of lockdown before rate can come down. There is hope this is the turning point.
 

Chish

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Its more likely that you have not yet been exposed to the corona virus, its in smaller pockets of people right now, but that is rapidly evolving, and numbers will begin to increase exponentially. It will be startling and scary, when the disease has run its course, it will dissipate exponentially as well.

There are NO known cases in the county or two surrounding at present, the most effective preventive is to avoid exposure, if wearing a mask makes you happy, by all means help yourself, but do exercise universal precautions, wash in, wash out.
Wearing mask will definitely protects others, washing hands will protect oneself and stop spreading through touch. Wear mask and wash hands together with social distancing will be much more effective.
 

Quickie

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Cant see article because of pay wall (Or maybe I’m just being dumb?)

But going off just the title, the work doesn’t need to be thousands of new ventilator designs, that would actually be massively counter productive as it would needlessly complicate supply chains and undue burden training, operating, maintenance and repairs etc with so many different types of ventilators potentially all having different parts and operating methods.

There just needs to be a few different types, and the world needs to turn them out like hot cakes. The only justification for having different types of ventilators is if there are specific medical needs for different functions or operating modes etc.

Just close the sales pitch pop-up by clicking on the X on the upper right corner. The article will reappear. It worked for me.
 
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