Risky hack could double access to ventilators
Have governments made orders (legal or purchase) for manufacture of ventilators by large scale companies?<p>Presumably ventilators are a relatively niche product - what&#x27;s in them that the World&#x27;s industrial complexes can&#x27;t ramp up production of within a couple of weeks?<p>I imagine it&#x27;s the pumps that&#x27;s the limiting factor? Given humanity already has the working tested, established designs.<p>Can&#x27;t governments requisition the design, turn the original factories in to test only, or construct and test, centres. Instruct the mega-corps, publicly, which parts they are to make and by when ...<p>In the West we throw away tens-of-thousands of highly engineered products every day; surely we can step up now?