More than 1 in 5 ventilators in federal government stockpile is holding for emergencies don't work

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Sounds like Boeing built these...[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/more-than-1-in-5-ventilators-the-federal-government-stockpile-is-holding-for-emergencies-dont-work/|

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1. Must be the same engineers who designed 737 plane

which had several crashes.

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2. That's what I was thinking

Saw where Dyson (the vacuum cleaner company) is building ventilators for The United Kingdom at a rapid pace.

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3. Maybe they misunderstood the term "crash cart".

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4. From MSNBC: Trump let the existing repair contract lapse.

There was a period of time before anyone noticed. A new contract was delayed due to a dispute over money.

No link to the on air story.

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9. Assuming the company is American, does a warrantee apply?!

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5. I believe a large number that CA received didn't work and they had to get them repaired

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7. Something like 4k had their "warranties" run out.

I take that to mean their certification--things need to be repairs. Perhaps gaskets or tubing.

A company in California said it could quickly refurbish them and send them out to the states, that it had tried it with a test batch and they could do it.

Later in that day, Newsom said that FEMA had sent them something like 176 (?) "broken" ventilators and that he'd worked out with that (same) company to get those fixed.

No, not RW press. Newsom's press release + the earlier press release from the company, just reading them side by side.

Might be that the "broken" ones really were somehow broken, but the pictures showed them still in their packaging and palleted, wrapped in shipping plastic, so whatever was broken could be determined without opening the boxes.

The security stockpile needs constant monitoring. You buy antivirals, they expire, for instance. At times administrations bought equipment, sometimes supplies, sometimes drugs. Sometimes they draw things down and instead of replacing them make choices that seem foolish in hindsight--but not at the time.

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6. I heard that in California, every one of the ventilators were broken. They sent every one of the...

broken units to the manufacturer to be repaired and they expected them back pretty quickly. There were approximately 200 of them, figures that w/ rump, he sent them as a vindictive measure to CA. Another reason not to vote for this POS.

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8. Only 170 of the ventilators were broken.

They were sent to Bloom Energy in Northern California for repairs, and were turned around in, like, three days....including ground delivery

Coronavirus: Tech firm Bloom Energy fixes broken US ventilators

A Californian company that usually makes green-energy fuel cells is due to deliver 170 repaired ventilators to Los Angeles later on Monday after transforming its manufacturing process.

An engineer at Bloom Energy downloaded the service manual and taught himself how to dismantle and rebuild them in a day, the Los Angeles Times reported.

They had been in storage since the H5N1 bird flu outbreak of the mid-2000s.

Bloom says it is now working to find other stockpiles of disused machines.

On Saturday, as California Governor Gavin Newsom visited the manufacturing plant, he said: “We got a car and a truck and had [them] brought here to this facility at 08:00 this morning.

“And Monday, they’ll have those ventilators back into Los Angeles all fixed. That’s the spirit of California.”

Mr Newsom said the the original manufacturers had initially told him it would take a month to fix 200 ventilators, which help patients breathe if they are having difficulties due to Covid-19 or other diseases

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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52094193

It should be noted: Bloom Energy is also repairing them at their East Coast factory.