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March 20, 2020 08:39 pm GMT
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Ventilator manufacturers aren't impressed by Elon Musk's offer
In the face of a projected national shortage, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to manufacture life-saving ventilators. There's just one problem: The companies actually making medical ventilators today don't think he can pull it off.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the world, officials around the U.Shave warned that, unless drastic measures are taken to create more, will we see demand for ventilators exceed the current supply. When, and if, this happens depends on numerous hard-to-predict factors such as the success of efforts to "flatten the curve." As such, Musk's claim on Friday that he's already started the work to build more seems at first like a blessing. Read more...
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