PUBLIC INTEREST LAW PROFESSOR JOHN BANZHAF
http://banzhaf.net/
CONTRIBUTES TO THE WAR ON COVID-19
CPAP MACHINES AND THE VIRUS

Here is a small sampling of articles:

CPAP Machines Embraced For COVID-19 Patients
"George Washington University Law professor John Banzhaf, an MIT-trained engineer, and inventor pointed out in an email on March 22nd, that, in contrast to medical ventilators there are literally millions of CPAP and similar devices already in use, or in warehouses waiting to be used.  Also, because they are much simpler to produce, and are currently made by many different companies, it is also much easier to increase CPAP production capacity to meet this extraordinary temporary demand; something not at all true for hospital ventilator machines, says Banzhaf.  Moreover, at an average cost of only about $850, hospitals would likely be much more willing and able to purchase enough CPAPs to help meet the growing surge in demand than ventilators and having trained personnel to operate and maintain them, says Banzhaf."

WATCH VIDEO - FDA Approves Use of CPAP Machines as Ventilators

Finally FDA Permits CPAP Use to Deal With Deadly Shortfall Of Medical Ventilators; Simple Common Sense Move Could Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives

FDA Finally Authorizes CPAP Use During Ventilator Shortage
"Interestingly, one of the first to suggest such a strategy, and to widely publicize it, was an MIT-educated law professor, and inventor with several patents, who is best known for saving millions of lives by requiring broadcasters to air antismoking messages, and forcing cigarette commercials off radio and television."

WATCH VIDEO - Users Would Donate CPAPs To Meet Part of Ventilator Shortage Amid COVID-19 Panic

Hospitals Refusing to Buy or Order Ventilators – Report; Further Exacerbating Availability Gap, But a Proven Alternative Exists
"Fortunately, there are other devices which have proven to be successful in similar circumstances, especially for many patients whose breathing problems do not necessarily require the full power and sophistication of an expensive hospital-type ventilator, suggests professor John Banzhaf, an MIT-educated engineer and inventor with several patents."

Ventilator shortage – CPAP machines to the rescue?
"But CPAP machines, already in wide use for people who snore, might be used as a temporary stopgap for those whose ventilator needs are not as severe and as complicated, suggests professor John Banzhaf, an MIT-educated engineer and inventor with several patents."

How to Sue Hospitals Over Ventilator Shortage Deaths; And Even Stronger Law Suits Over Failure to Use FDA-Approved Alternatives Such as CPAP Breathing Machines
"So, notes Banzhaf, a much stronger legal case can be made if a hospital did not even try to meet the needs of a COVID-19 patient who needed respiratory assistance to avoid certain death, but who didn't necessarily require - or at least could survive without - the full power and sophistication of a hospital ventilator, by using a simpler medical breathing device such as a CPAP machine, which is largely employed to reduce snoring and other problems of sleep apnea."

NYS to Use Other Breathing Machines During Ventilator Shortage
"Fortunately it takes only a simple adaptor which can be manufactured on a common 3D printer, so the specifications for the adaptor can be made available over the Internet to permit many more conversions, notes professor John Banzhaf, an MIT-educated engineer and inventor who has been promoting the idea of using CPAPs and similar breathing machines to help save lives during the ventilator shortage crisis.  He also notes that at least one person suffering from COVID-19 was reportedly treated successfully using an even simpler CPAP breathing machine – sometimes called a “poor man’s ventilator.”  Shortly after he suggested these uses, the federal FDA, and also its Australian equivalent agency, recommended using such devices during the crisis. The FDA said: “Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), auto-CPAP, and bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP or BPAP) machines typically used for treatment of sleep apnea (either in the home or facility setting) may be used to support patients with respiratory insufficiency provided appropriate monitoring (as available) and patient condition.”

Increased CPAP Demand After FDA Suggests CPAP As COVID-19 Treatment Alternative
"Professor John Banzhaf of George Washington University suggested "[CPAPs] should more properly be termed life-saving stop-gap ventilators during the current crisis" in an article for ValueWalk."

Tracking Devices Used to Enforce Quarantines – But Unnecessarily; There’s a Less Expensive Way to Begin Enforcing Coronavirus Quarantines
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It’s high time authorities began to enforce quarantines to prevent even more unnecessary deaths, but there is an easier and much less expensive way to insure compliance, suggests public interest law professor John Banzhaf, who researched a similar issue regarding tracking of illegal immigrants."

CPAP Machines Fighting COVID-19, As Banzhaf Suggested
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Although hospital ventilators were initially the standard treatment for COVID-19 patients experiencing breathing difficulties, doctors are now increasingly first trying CPAP and similar breathing machines normally used by those with sleep apnea. In this case, CPAPs with added oxygen are used to avoid putting patients on ventilators from which most eventually die, notes professor John Banzhaf, an MIT-educated engineer and inventor who is now a law professor.  Banzhaf was one of the first to suggest and aggressively publicize using CPAP machines – sometimes called a “poor man’s ventilator” – in situations of only moderate respiratory distress where a patient might not require the full power and sophistication of a hospital-type ventilator, especially since the latter involves very serious risks, and is a treatment from which many COVID-19 victims never recover."

Easy Breathe Prepared for Increased CPAP Demand After FDA Suggests CPAP As COVID-19 Treatment Alternative

"Professor John Banzhaf of George Washington University suggested "[CPAPs] should more properly be termed life-saving stop-gap ventilators during the current crisis."

Coronavirus Could Decimate Africa, Except For CPAPs; FDA Approves Application; US Hospitals Increasingly Using
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But a novel proven strategy now growing in use could make it possible to provide enough respiratory assistance to save hundreds of thousands of African lives, even for people who live in remove villages without access to reliable electricity, much less ventilators and those trained to operate them, says professor John Banzhaf, who was one of the first to suggest and aggressively promote this new procedure.
   Of all the tools for fighting the deadly coronavirus which have come out of universities, this may be one of the most useful, and one with great potential for saving many lives in Africa.
  It is also rather clearly one of the most unusual, since Banzhaf isn't a medical person, nor even a scientist and practicing engineer.
   Rather, he is an interdisciplinary academic figure who has made his mark in fields as varied as public health ("The Man Behind The Ban On Cigarette Commercials");  computer science, game theory, and political science (the "Banzhaf Index"); and public interest litigation ("a Driving Force Behind the Lawsuits That Have Cost Tobacco Companies Billions of Dollars").

BLACK ENTERPRISE - Black Physicians Group Will Independently Vet Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines

WBUR + NPR - Group Of Black Doctors Want To Vet Any New COVID-19 Vaccines

CORONA - Expert NMA Committee To Vet Vaccine Before Public Use // Medical Organization to Stymie Trump If He Overrides FDA

Black Doctors’ Action Could Stymie Vaccine – As Predicted; Huge New Conflicts of Interest Add to Pressure For Independent Review

Medical Organizations to Stymie Trump If He Overrides FDA; Expert National Medical Association Committee to Vet Vaccine Before Public Use