Low-Cost Arduino-Based Ventilator
This probably should have gone on the thread about flattening the curve not being enough. But.Where is the core team of 12 people plus 108 collaborators that should have been assembled a month and a half ago to figure out how to retune US manufacturing to start producing stripped down ICU beds and the supplies needed to keep them operational?This game is easy. The parameters are well understood. You could assign the basic problem to a middle schooler. Getting realistic numbers? Well it doesn't matter, no matter what those number are, every single fully functional ICU bed that can be brought online in the next 2 weeks is probably going to save 2 lives. According to some of the other economic analysis that has been posted here today suggesting that we let people die, that is 18 million dollars in human lives.How many fully stocked ICU beds can you make for 18 million dollars? There's your startup idea for the next 2 weeks.Not ignoring the fact that you need a team to staff it and work it, but guess what, you ALSO have two weeks to train as many people as you can to run these things.WHERE IS THIS TEAM?