Unneeded Respiratory Ventilators

The original models of widespread hospital bed shortages have not materialized. The U.K. government had ordered 10,000 ventilators to be made by manufacturer Dyson. The need for those ventilators did not materialize.


Dyson says UK government does not need its COVID-19 ventilator

Vacuum cleaner company Dyson said the British government no longer needed the ventilator it had developed from scratch to help plug a shortfall of the devices needed to treat patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms. Dyson said last month it had received an order for 10,000 of the machines.

It has also been reported that the field hospitals are not being used.  U.S. Field Hospitals Stand Down

The endeavor cost more than $660 million, according to an NPR analysis of federal spending records.
But nearly four months into the pandemic, most of these facilities haven't treated a single patient.