<story><title>Interview with German Ventilator Manufacturer</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-ventilator-manufacturer-absolutely-mission-impossible-a-549d1e18-8c21-45f1-846f-cf5ca254b008</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sabertoothed</author><text>Some key statements:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Dräger: In Europe, the number of intensive-care beds per capita is very unequally distributed. In Italy, it is three times lower than here. In England, five times lower. The challenge in England will be greater than in Spain. And the situation in the U.S. is very alarming. The reporting system there is also underdeveloped.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Interview with German Ventilator Manufacturer</title><url>https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-ventilator-manufacturer-absolutely-mission-impossible-a-549d1e18-8c21-45f1-846f-cf5ca254b008</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianN</author><text>It would be nice if we could at least provide everybody with simple surgical masks. It would surely help flatten the curve a lot if we could make masks in public mandatory. As far as I understand it those are basically just paper and a nose clip. They should be very simple to mass manufacture.</text></comment>