[ericb]

I submitted an Ask: HN to propose designing an open source ventilator. It was invisi-modded.

From watching videos from inside wuhan, there seem to be hints that this thing is somewhat similar to the flu and I think it is possible, even likely, that there is a massive swath of unregistered infected, and the hospital based study is an extremely self selected group of people--as in there is a high mortality rate and ventilator usage among people who felt bad enough to check themselves in, and were bad enough to admit.