Wang Shuo: U.S. Ventilator Data Tells Me Wuhan Really Took a Bullet for China

As the gravity of the coronavirus epidemic shifts to Europe and the U.S., people in China widely believe availability of medical resources needed to tackle the virus remains a big problem in these places. For some critical equipment, such as ventilators, actual demand could be 10 times current available supply, such belief goes.

At first glance, this kind of belief sounds reasonable. But I’ve decided to dig deeper into the issue using available data.