I see Doctor Trump's expert gut is telling him New York needs way fewer ventilators than Cuomo asked for. This would be the 16 million die-off plan, for getting rid of a lot of old unproductive folks. Honestly, we need about 16 million respirators nation-wide to handle the peak load. Now doctors are talking about doubling up or even putting four patients on each ventilator. Then we will just need about 4 million! We have maybe 100,000? they are all peeing into an empty swimming pool, and expecting the level to rise enough to notice. New York state alone needs about 800,000, or 200,000 if they go four to a ventilator. Cuomo asked for 30,000. Trump is sending 4000.

Some other developed countries have more ventilators per capita, but they are in a similar situation. In the rest of the world, deaths will be in the 5% to 15% range.