INTERESTING ARTICLE: Estimates of the Demand for Mechanical Ventilation in the United States During an Influenza Pandemic.

I should note that the US has a huge number of CPAP machines, which aren’t ventilators but aren’t nothing. I wonder if they can be adjusted to provide more assistance than normal?

More here. According to this, the US is way ahead of other countries in the number of ICU beds per capita that can be equipped with ventilators: Well over twice as many as Canada, nearly 4 times as many as Australia and New Zealand. The CDC has a national stockpile of ventilators, too.