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I think you are a bit confused about the position the country is in right now. Regulations and regulators can and will be damned in an emergency. Of course, all reasonable precautions should be taken when producing medical equipment. But if someone needs a ventilator, they are going to die without it. It doesn't matter that there is a small chance that complications arise or some flaw in the ventilator causes it not…
Sure, the regulatory regime needs to be relaxed to quickly bring on more manufacturing capacity. I believe it will be. Throwing it out entirely and allowing anybody to manufacture and sell medical devices from their garage is not going to happen. That being said, auto manufacturers likely have no experience manufacturing these devices. The don't know which optimizations will be dangerous. They may not recognize they…
The situation we are in is the same as a doctor doing an emergency tracheotomy in a restaurant using a pen sterilized with some gin. No one really wonders what the serial number is of that pen or whether it was made with the high quality requirements of surgigcal equipment.
The machines produced in a mobilization shouldn't even be compared with those produced in peacetime. They should be compared to nothing at all. So when the question arises "is this device safe"? The relevant answer is "well this patient is dying on a stretcher in a tent next to a thousand others like him, so we'll use it".
It follows that it's important that these devices are either destroyed or quality certified after the fact. These can't be used in five years in during a routine surgery, of course.