GM begins mass production of ventilators for US government

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

General Motors said Tuesday it started mass production of ventilators needed to treat severely sick coronavirus patients and will deliver the first batch to the United States government this month.

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded GM a contract worth $489.4 million to make 30,000 ventilators by the end of August.

GM, which is working with ventilator firm Ventec Life Systems, said it will ship more than 600 ventilators in April.

It added that it expects to fill nearly half the order by the end of June and the full order by the end of August.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/gm-begins-mass-production-of-ventilators-for-us-government/ar-BB12COon?li=BBnb7Kz

Jared will just hoard them and say, "They're ours!!!"

[Under The Radar]

1. I hope these are for export because Trump said the we have enough

[RockRaven]

2. Over 4 months late. The Trump admin should have started sourcing new vents in January, not

last fucking week.

[Igel]

4. Turns out it wasn't a problem.

Texas hasn't come close to needing what it has, and NY hasn't reported deaths because of a ventilator shortage.

Projects that were "absolute" turned out to be worst case projections (all projections have error bars, substantial ones, because of all the assumptions that play into them). As I've said before, some worst case projections might happen because unlikely things do happen, but not all of them would occur. And declaring that the minimum necessary is the maximum you might need, and saying if you don't have them "people will die" is hyperbole.

They should have been sourced in late January, less than 3 months ago when it was confirmed that it was serious and could be transmitted person to person (why that took so long to confirm is anybody's guess). But 4 months ago was mid-December, and the first report wasn't out yet.

[mobeau69]

3. We're gonna need 'em now.