Reich also shared a slideshow on LinkedIn titled, “Repurposing bi-level ventilators for COVID-19 patients.” The slideshow is a protocol for repurposing bi-level ventilators for use with intubated patients. This will help minimize the risk to health care workers and those being cared for in the midst of an insufficient supply of conventional ventilation for COVID-19 patients.
In the executive summary, it states that there is an inadequate supply of invasive mechanical ventilators — these are what healthcare workers are using to treat the severest of the COVID-19 cases. While there is a shortage of ventilators, there is also an abundant supply of non-invasive bi-level ventilators such as the ones Tesla sent to Mount Sinai.
This is notable in part because several critics (including some with big microphones) were concerned with the fact that Tesla sent over CPAP machines, but just as I surmised, these were able to be converted into ventilators that are now saving the lives of those in US communities most severely affected by the coronavirus. Perhaps the critics should learn medicine and engineering before trying to figure out how helping those in need is a form of fraud.
Furthermore, New York Governor Cuomo noted in a recent press release that BiHAP machines, like those provided, were useful for New York medical staff.