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First new ventilators approved and beginning ship. And they are not from Dyson

As the coronavirus spread through the UK the government realised it needed many more ventilators, and called on British engineers to create new machines for the front line.

The first design has now been approved. Oxford-based firm Penlon worked with other companies - including Formula One racing teams, Ford and Siemens - to get the design finished, and the government has put in 15,000 orders.

Penlon’s Prima ES02 model will begin shipping today, with the first 40 devices heading to a Ministry of Defence base before being delivered to hospitals. Hundreds of units are expected to be built over the next week.
 
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West WindsR said:
Don’t get it. Who’s the bloke on the left?
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Sam Smith, singer/songwriter and is very genderfluid. Likes to be addressed as 'they'. The picture is one he posted as having a hard time self-isolating in luxury and just liked to let everyone know. Poor luv...

Edit, apologies I described 'they' as 'he'...I honesty haven't a f*cking clue...<laugh>
 
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Sooperhoop said:
Sam Smith, singer/songwriter and is very genderfluid. Likes to be addressed as 'they'. The picture is one he posted as having a hard time self-isolating in luxury and just liked to let everyone know. Poor luv...

Edit, apologies I described 'they' as 'he'...I honesty haven't a f*cking clue...<laugh>
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Why can't he just settle with "it"?
 
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think the "journalist" needs to read a dictionary look up the words videoing and exercising as he clearly has no idea. If he was a bona fida journalist then he would have been fully aware of the current restriction imposed to reduce the spreading of Covid 19
 
qprbeth said:
First new ventilators approved and beginning ship. And they are not from Dyson

As the coronavirus spread through the UK the government realised it needed many more ventilators, and called on British engineers to create new machines for the front line.

The first design has now been approved. Oxford-based firm Penlon worked with other companies - including Formula One racing teams, Ford and Siemens - to get the design finished, and the government has put in 15,000 orders.

Penlon’s Prima ES02 model will begin shipping today, with the first 40 devices heading to a Ministry of Defence base before being delivered to hospitals. Hundreds of units are expected to be built over the next week.
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Do we need loads more ventilators? The death rate once you get on one seems to be north of 50%, and the protocols allowing access are now so strict that many of the seriously sick won’t be given a chance. We have excess COVID19 capacity at the moment - of the 500 open beds at the London Nightingale (Capacity 4000) only 19 were occupied over the Easter weekend, apparently because the admittance guidelines exclude the seriously sick. The one in Birmingham isn’t even open yet, and they are having trouble staffing it - I’ve heard (first hand) that nurses are refusing to leave their own units - very aggressively in some cases - to go there. Not sure if this is because of PPE or not.

Good for the people who are designing, building and supplying the ventilators though, I am not in the least surprised that they are first out of the blocks.
 
ELLERS said:
I found this on Facebook.
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I don’t think I have the mentality to be a policeman. Or a journalist. Good to see that social distancing doesn’t apply to coppers though, bet they get tested every day just to be sure.
 
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