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James Dyson designed a new ventilator in 10 days. He's making 15,000 for the pandemic fight


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2020 Mar 26, 12:17pm   911 views  6 comments

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Dyson has received an order from the UK government for 10,000 ventilators to support efforts by the country's National Health Service to treat coronavirus patients.
James Dyson, the company's billionaire founder, confirmed the order in a letter to employees shared with CNN on Wednesday.

"A ventilator supports a patient who is no longer able to maintain their own airways, but sadly there is currently a significant shortage, both in the UK and other countries around the world," Dyson wrote.
Dyson said the company had designed and built an entirely new ventilator, called the "CoVent," since he received a call 10 days ago from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

"This new device can be manufactured quickly, efficiently and at volume," Dyson added, saying that the new ventilator has been designed to "address the specific needs" of coronavirus patients.
A spokesperson for the company, which is best known for its vacuum cleaners and hand dryers, said the ventilators would be ready by early April. Dyson, who has wealth worth $10 billion according to Bloomberg, wrote in his letter that he would also donate 5,000 units to the international effort to tackle the pandemic.
"The core challenge was how to design and deliver a new, sophisticated medical product in volume and in an extremely short space of time," he added. "The race is now on to get it into production."

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1   zzyzzx   2020 Mar 26, 1:01pm  

By the time has has made these ventilators, the pandemic will be over.
2   Ceffer   2020 Mar 26, 1:20pm  

Small glitch. If you put it on reverse, it sucks your lungs all the way out and strains them through a dust filter. It needs a little more work.
3   clambo   2020 Mar 26, 2:39pm  

I think if they put you on a ventilator you have a bad case.
4   RWSGFY   2020 Apr 24, 9:26am  

Dyson Covid-19 ventilators are 'no longer required' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52409359
5   HeadSet   2020 Apr 24, 12:09pm  

TEOTWAWKI says
Dyson Covid-19 ventilators are 'no longer required' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52409359


Wonder how those ventilators will be repurposed.
6   RWSGFY   2020 Apr 24, 12:12pm  

HeadSet says
TEOTWAWKI says
Dyson Covid-19 ventilators are 'no longer required' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52409359


Wonder how those ventilators will be repurposed.


Dick pumps.

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