Tesla, Dyson and others have all lost to ventilators abroad, and the price of ventilators in the domestic market has skyrocketed

According to foreign media reports, last month Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised to donate more than 1,000 ventilators to hospitals across the United States and said the company would produce ventilators as soon as possible. But according to reports, many of the ventilators Musk sent were continuous positive airway pressure or bi-level positive airway pressure ventilators used to treat sleep apnea syndrome. Although they can help treat new coronary pneumonia, they are usually not suitable for critically ill patients.

Although many hospitals said they were grateful for the equipment sent by Tesla, Musk's promise about ventilators seemed to continue his consistent pattern of making rash remarks on social media. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, Musk has begun to make various unconfirmed remarks, and a video he posted on Twitter was even deleted for violating company guidelines.

Musk's actions also stand in stark contrast to traditional automakers. Earlier this month, Ford and General Motors competed to convert their production lines to produce ventilators. Musk tweeted as early as March 18: "If there is a shortage, we will make ventilators." In the same week, General Motors and began exploring whether they could produce invasive ventilators through collaboration. Musk also made a commitment to officials including New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and California Governor Gavin Newsom to produce ventilators on their own.

Musk said that the New York factory would produce ventilators "as soon as possible" by the end of March, but as of the end of April, Tesla had not disclosed whether the factory had started production. In early April, Tesla demonstrated a prototype ventilator made of auto parts, but never made it clear whether it could be put into production. In fact, since the outbreak, Musk has posted a lot of content about the virus on social media, and the controversy surrounding ventilators is just one of them. Industry insiders say that another mistake Musk made is that he often expresses his opinions on things far beyond his field of expertise.

The electrical innovation giant was just rejected by the British government yesterday for its ventilators. Dyson said that the British government no longer needs ventilators developed from scratch to fill the domestic ventilator gap. This means that Dyson's 100 million ventilator order will be abandoned. In March this year, Dyson received an order from the British government to provide 10,000 ventilators to support the National Health Service in treating patients with new coronary pneumonia. James Dyson, the founder of Dyson, also said that he had received an order for 10,000 ventilators. At that time, the relevant person in charge of the UK said that 18,000 ventilators were needed to cope with the crisis, but there were only 10,800 ventilators in the country, and the gap was large.

In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, McLaren Group and its member companies – McLaren Automotive, McLaren Racing (Formula 1 team) and McLaren Applied Technologies (responsible for data and electrification technologies) – have joined the Ventilator Challenge UK to support the scale-up of medical ventilator production in the country.

It is reported that the UK Ventilator Action Alliance is composed of many heavyweight companies in the fields of industry, technology and engineering, including giants in many fields such as aerospace, automobiles and medical care.

Recently, VentilatorChallenge UK, a consortium of companies including Rolls-Royce, Siemens and Airbus, has obtained regulatory approval and has provided 250 ventilators to the UK's public health system, the National Health Service.

According to foreign media reports, during this COVID-19 outbreak, the global demand for ventilators is 10 times the number currently owned by medical institutions. According to incomplete statistics, the global shortage of ventilators is at least over one million .

According to the data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, there are currently 21 invasive ventilator manufacturers in China, and the main products of 8 of them have obtained the EU mandatory CE certification . The top ones include Beijing Yian and Mindray Medical. At present, many ventilator manufacturers in China have already scheduled their production until June and July, and some larger companies have even scheduled their production until September .

The Medical Device Distributors Alliance learned from industry insiders that, for example, the VG-70 , which is relatively popular in the market, had a factory price of just over 150,000 yuan before the outbreak. With the increase in market demand and the cost of raw materials, the market price was basically over 320,000 to 350,000 yuan . After the price soared three times, the final transaction price could reach 440,000 yuan per unit .

At present, epidemic prevention materials such as ventilators are still in short supply.

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