The ventilator deaths are tragic, but they shined a very large light on a critical issue in our healthcare system—lack of respiratory therapists.

Much like how the Rockefeller medical education system is designed to keep us short stocked on doctors, when COVID hit, there were not enough respiratory therapists to cover everyone they put on ventilators. Had there been instead of other doctors not trained to see when they should be used, how to use them properly, etc. some of those lives would’ve been saved.