“If ICU space or ventilators run out, it’s time for step three. It calls for looking at patients’ condition scores but also considering individual factors; in general, those with high and worsening scores are the first to be transferred out of an ICU. If shortages worsen, hospitals should then consider transferring patients with high or worsening scores. Pregnant patients get priority for intensive care, and if two patients are equally eligible for a spot in the ICU, it generally goes to the younger patient.”
“If the administration had reacted to the ventilator shortage in February, a private sector effort starting now might have made lifesaving equipment in mid- to late April. Now it is unlikely to be before June.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/politics/coronavirus-ventilators.html?referringSource=articleShare
Jake Tapper NAILS IT!
March 14, 2020:
THIS:
We have 62,000 Ventilators
Supply of mechanical ventilators in U.S. acute care hospitals: Based on a 2009 survey of AHA hospitals, U.S. acute care hospitals are estimated to own approximately 62,000 full-featured mechanical ventilators.10,11 Approximately 46% of these can be used to ventilate pediatric and neonatal patients. Additionally, some hospitals keep older models for emergency purposes. Older models, which are not full featured but may provide basic functions, add an additional 98,738 ventilators to the U.S. supply.10 The older devices include 22,976 noninvasive ventilators, 32,668 automatic resuscitators, and 8567 continuous positive airway pressure units.
https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19
Estimates of hospitalized patients requiring critical care and mechanical ventilation: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimated in 2005 that 865,000 U.S. residents would be hospitalized during a moderate pandemic (as in the 1957 and 1968 influenza pandemics) and 9.9 million during a severe pandemic (as in the 1918 influenza pandemic).16 A recent AHA webinar on COVID-19 projected that 30% (96 million) of the U.S. population will test positive, with 5% (4.8 million) being hospitalized. Of the hospitalized patients, 40% (1.9 million) would be admitted to the ICU, and 50% of the ICU admissions (960,000) would require ventilatory support.17 Such projections, however, are gross estimates. Some assumptions underlying these projections are uncertain, and the pacing of a large outbreak would influence whether ICU resources in isolated locations or nationally are severely taxed over many months or quickly overwhelmed over a shorter period. Additionally, COVID-19 patients may remain mechanically ventilated for indeterminate periods of time, with some developing prolonged or chronic critical illness requiring the extended use of ICU beds, ventilators, supplies, and trained clinicians.
https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19
New York is a great example!
“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, you’re going to major hospitals sometimes, they’ll have two ventilators. And now, all of a sudden, they’re saying, can we order 30,000 ventilators?”
Andrew Cuomo is the Governor of the STATE of New York!
Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report
“CDC estimates that so far this season there have been at least 39 million flu illnesses, 400,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu.”
Remember: “A recent AHA webinar on COVID-19 projected that 30% (96 million) of the U.S. population will test positive, with 5% (4.8 million) being hospitalized.”
“Of the hospitalized patients, 40% (1.9 million) would be admitted to the ICU, and 50% of the ICU admissions (960,000) would require ventilatory support”
https://sccm.org/Blog/March-2020/United-States-Resource-Availability-for-COVID-19
IF 5% of those cases need to be hospitalized. 293,100 patients hospitalized.
IF 40% of those 293,100 need to be hospitalized, 117,240 patients in ICU.
IF half of 117,240 in ICU need a ventilator? 58,620 ventilators needed!
New York City | 8,601,186 | 34,105 ventilators |
Buffalo | 252,555 | 1,001 |
Rochester | 206,318 | 818 |
Yonkers | 202,127 | 801 |
Syracuse | 141,353 | 560 |
Albany | 97,640 | 387 |
New Rochelle | 79,518 | 315 |
Mount Vernon | 68,212 | 270 |
Schenectady | 63,536 | 252 |
Utica | 59,608 | 236 |
People are going to DIE from Lack of Ventilators!
We are in a race against time!
Ventec CEO Chris Kiple told GM’s global manufacturing chief, Gerald Johnson, that one of more than 700 components needed to build his company’s VOCSN ventilator was made by a factory in India where the entire region had been quarantined. While about 80% of VOCSN parts are made in the United States, that lone India holdup would derail any expanded production plans because the ventilator can’t work without that missing piece.
On Monday, Ford and General Electric announced they too are joining forces to produce 1,500 ventilators by the end of April, 12,000 by June and 50,000 by July. The ventilators would be a cheaper version of an FDA-approved machine produced by Airon
https://www.heraldnet.com/business/the-incredibly-challenging-ventilator-effort-by-ventec-gm/
We need 800,000 more!
TOO LATE AND NOT ENOUGH!
When you are on a ventilator (IF YOU GET ONE!) you have to be sedated
They take operators and medical staff!
Ventilator Patients need Beds to Lay On!
I have created an Index of how this is Completely on Donald Trump and his incompetent administration – I Am Mad As Hell!
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