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COVID-19: Ventilators, When Profit Trumps Production of Needed Equipment

Looking back you can see how good ideas and efforts failed.

The after-action reports from the coronavirus epidemic here in the United States and around the world will be epic in number and size. I expect one entire chapter will be written about ventilators.  Why was there a shortage, could anything have been done in advance of the need? Where were there problems? What courses of action failed or worked?

An executive summary for the ventilator supply chain issues could start with this article, The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed.

 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.