Hospitals also need beds and staff to care for patients on ventilators. They could be well-equipped with the ventilators themselves and be bottlenecked on people to operate them.
> Producing a lot of ventilators or masks/gowns very quickly. This will require a lot of repurposing and creativity but thankfully is an engineering problem not a scientific ones.
If the bottleneck is the people to operate them then its not an engineering problem.