Coronavirus: Formula 1 teams are to help in supply of ventilators
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Formula 1 teams are working with government and health authorities to increase the supply of ventilators during the coronavirus crisis.
Ventilators are a device used to help supply more air to patients with breathing difficulties, one of the effects of severe coronavirus symptoms.
The majority of F1 teams are aiming to work out ways to use their engineering facilities to boost production.
F1 said the aim was to "provide as much help and assistance as we can".
A spokesman said: "The F1 community is engaged in discussions with all the relevant stakeholders regarding this issue and we will provide further details in due course."
A number of teams have applied-technologies divisions that could directly feed into the national production capacity of ventilators in the UK and Italy, particularly McLaren, Red Bull, Williams, Mercedes and Ferrari.
But all teams have advanced manufacturing capability that could potentially be used to make complex devices such as this, and as many will help as can.
The idea is to increase the supply of the existing design of ventilators rather than try to come up with a new approach.
The UK is estimated to need an extra 20,000 ventilators to deal with the crisis as it develops over the coming months.
It is hoped that an approach can be agreed within the next week that will help teams feed into capacity as quickly as possible, to boost the capability of health services to deal with increasing numbers of patients with breathing difficulties.
The move follows the Agnelli family which controls Ferrari and Fiat donating €10m (£9.3m) to the Italian government to help deal with the coronavirus emergency at a national level, as well as buying 150 extra ventilators and providing a fleet of cars to distribute food and medicine.
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Strange how private healthcare (touted as being superior to the NHS) has decided to 'Rent' out beds costing us £3M a day!
Spain nationalised their private hospitals.
What a sad individual you are.
F1 may not be your cup of tea but be grateful they are doing something positive. I just hope you are not one of the unlucky ones who will need the use their ventilators.
Let's hope they can.
These teams have the best technology and the funds to make a really difference during this difficult time.
Thank you to all the F1 teams helping and stay safe everyone, we will get through this together.
JY
F1 has developed material science, metallurgy, electronics, batteries, flame retardant fabrics and aerodynamics. Williams even set up a company that regenerated energy in hybrid public transport. The carbon fibre production methods are used in such things as prosthetic limbs
Almost every improvement in the world begins with engineers, not people who carp on HYS.
A very reliable, simple device that's been in hospital use for years.
BTW, I'm a medical engineer
I do hope this is being looked at in the UK. It might solve the horrendous shortfall...