Government orders 10k ventilators from Dyson

&quot;Meanwhile, the consortium of medical, military and civil engineering companies - which includes Airbus, Meggit, GKN and others - is working to ramp up the production of an existing design.&quot;<p>This is such a relief!

“Dyson has had hundreds of engineers working round the clock to design the ventilators from scratch.”<p>It blows my mind. Everybody now, instead of cooperating, tries to design a perfect ventilator.

The government turned down an offer from the EU because Europe which is a bit worrying.<p>There are plenty of medical equipment manufacturers in the UK who&#x27;ve made these exact products before, or very similar products, and who know the rules and regulations well. They&#x27;ve offered to help, but not heard anything back from the government.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BBCNewsnight&#x2F;status&#x2F;1242949236762738692" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;BBCNewsnight&#x2F;status&#x2F;1242949236762738692</a><p>These are the kinds of things that we will have to hold the government to account for at some point.

I&#x27;m an intensivist and I really hope that ventilator won&#x27;t be mounted on the bed like they show in the picture. That&#x27;s a very bad idea, you need that space to access the patient.

Didn&#x27;t Dyson move all his manufacturing to Singapore at the same time as loudly espousing Brexit?<p>Waiting for the v2 of the ventilator that has a ball attached, and costs an extra £100.

How hard are these things to build? It certainly looks like a complicated medical device, but is there a simpler DIY version that gets the job done?

So are ventilators actually complicated and frequently modernized equipment or medical TI83s. I was reading one the largest expenditures of PPEs in China after they resolved the supply issue was adjusting ventilator settings. Seems like a wired or wireless interface would go a long way.

Are there estimates for how many ventilators coutries are targeting?

Well, at least the Dyson PR department is working hard. Shame their tech is shoddy at best.

CoVent™<p>Excellent naming.

withouth a meaningful time line, this is all noise.<p>its a totally new design, which means its going to have to be re-certified.<p>The UK has had 2 months head start, 1 month if you take italy as a warning, 2 if you treat the &quot;YOLO LETS JUST LET IT BURN THROUGH THE POPULACE.&quot;as a starting point.