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It's certainly excellent news that we don't need as many ventilators as originally predicted and only an idiot would disagree :thumbsup: Unfortunately Dyson has contributed absolutely nothing to this situation or the innovative thinking behind the reasons as explained below. The reason this...

As we used to call it, 'First to press, last to market' (well, not even to market, in this instance) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52409359 Surprised ?

14 days ago, the Government asked for help. Since then, The Ventilator Challenge UK Consortium has pulled together 15 companies and groups, including seven UK-based F1 teams, and five ‘key enablers’ including Accenture, Microsoft and PTC to rapidly build existing, modified or newly designed...

Well obviously, I've no idea, but I think we should all back the Government at the moment, unless you have reason to think they are doing something that really isn't in the interests of the country :shrug:

There's an interesting quote in this link that was published earlier in the thread https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-26/the-ventilators-the-nhs-needs-going-into-mass-production-and-dyson-isn-t-involved/ From the "VentilatorChallengeUK" consortium of more than twenty companies including...

More good news on ventilators and CPAP machines. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52087002 University College London engineers worked with clinicians at UCLH and Mercedes Formula One to build the device, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator.Forty of the new devices...

Hadn't seen that. Excellent news :thumbsup:

I honestly think that you are looking for something that isn't there. Try reading my post again. Now is not the time because there are far more pressing priorities, like getting more ventilators in, in whatever way we can. I'm just not sure that re-inventing the wheel is the answer :shrug:

To be honest, I'm more interested in how 'we didn't get the email' or 'missed the deadline' for the EU ventilator procurement, when the other 27 got it https://www.ft.com/content/f9051f66-cfbe-4b36-848e-3980225ae542 and this story about the UK missing out on these 5,000 ventilators, that were...

Now I'm no expert, but maybe what we need is lots of what we already have and addressing those supply/production lines and maybe concentrating on ramping up the existing proven production lines. Maybe try to buy large quantities of what already exists as part of a major economic power? As I...