Physicians, engineers work to deliver automated bag valve mask solution for COVID-19 crisis
Rice University and Canadian global health design firm Metric Technologies have developed an automated bag valve mask ventilation unit that can be built for less than $300 worth of parts and help patients in treatment for COVID-19. The collaboration expects to share the plans for the ventilator by making them freely available online to anyone in the world.
That day, the head of China’s national health commission team investigating the outbreak, confirmed that two cases of infection in China’s Guangdong province had been caused by human-to-human transmission and medical staff had been infected.
February 3, 2020, 2:56 AM EST Updated on February 3, 2020, 4:04 AM ESThttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-03/china-blasts-u-s-for-overreaction-to-virus-spreading-fear
Don’t even start that bs. There’s been plenty I’ve brought to you, that you had no clue about. And no, I’m not in the profession, at all. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect your opinion and look for ways to demean you. When you’re ready to have a conversation without the slights, I’ll be around.
No moving goalposts. The criticism of Trump is what he did or didn’t do in February and the beginning of March. That has nothing to do with what China did or didn’t do in December and January.
January 22, China and WHO came clean on the human to human contact. WHO was still arguing against a travel ban for China.
January 31 travel ban.
3M had started uptick on masks. However, most masks were made in China who wound up keeping them for themselves…understandably.
Feb 6…CDC. comes up with first test kit. This fails, resulting in criticism of their being not better, smarter people I guess…and that they should have gotten some elsewhere.
Just this week…Spain (second hotspot under Italy) reveals that the 7000 test kits they got from China were defective and were only detecting 30% of positives (and that they want to return them and get their money back)…which is exactly the reason CDC was justified in creating its own test kits.
The President ordered a Travel Ban on Jan 31. Great. He says he always knew that Covid -19 was going to be a pandemic. His words not mine.
Did he start a coordination effort with the States?
Did he alert private industry to soon to be increased demand?
Did he form a Covid-19 response team that would identify any future impediments to providing treatment?
Was there any effort given to beginning to mobilize resources such as the Comfort to arrive where most needed? Was there any identification of what stockpiles the US government has at it’s disposal so as to know at a moments notice what is on hand and where? etc… etc…
There were a whole host of things that the President could have done since he knew all along that it was going to be a pandemic.
So why do people give him a pass on this?
If a Democrat performed this poorly at the beginning of a pandemic you would be eviscerating them and I would be agreeing with you.