Financial Times: Elon Musk promised ventilators. These are BPAP machines

From the earlier incarnation of this on HN - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22758744" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22758744</a> -<p>a link to a de-paywalled version: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;ANdKO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;archive.is&#x2F;ANdKO</a>

I am not an expert on this topic, but isn&#x27;t the distinction between BiPAP and ventilators mostly semantic?