The main issue, as explained in a New York Times reportage, is that, to put it plainly, “ there aren’t enough ventilators to cope with the coronavirus “. The reason why there aren’t enough is that they are extremely difficult to produce and so it takes a long time, even for those companies that have been making these machines for decades.

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That’s why it’s not about making 3D printed ventilators but 3D printing parts to address ventilator supply chain issues. Right now, the NYT reports that “while the acute shortages are global, not just in the United States, some European governments are deploying wartime-mobilization tactics to get factories churning out more ventilators — and to stop domestic companies from exporting them. In one dramatic example, the article cites Andreas Wieland, the chief executive of Hamilton Medical in Switzerland, one of the world’s largest makers of ventilators, who says that […]

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