[forkexec]

There are only 62k ventilators in the US and 12k held by the SNS. Ventilators aren't simple machines and nowhere near as simple as residential -PAP machines, so this untested "open source" effort or GM saying they would produce them are virtue-signaling, useless noise inapplicable to the present timeframe. And where ventilators are typically used, there are only 65k ICU beds in the US. Furthermore, the machines aren't uniformly distributed. Areas with low ICU beds per capita and large cities will need many more, and some rural areas may not have any ventilators for hundreds of miles.

While there are 140k respiratory therapists in the US, not all of them work in intensive care or hospitals. Nurses are also required to staff an ICU ward.

All of this is moot without PPE needed for medical staff to provide care. No amount of medical robots would be able to tech our way out of this fundamental limitation.