I'm mechanically and electrically handy but don't have a basement full of ventilators. I'm going to send an email to my local hospital ... we'll see how that goes. Anyone have know where else to find ventilators that need to be serviced?
https://blog.plan99.net/cpap-for-covid-d47886bf978c
https://blog.plan99.net/more-cpap-for-covid-b6911f806c89
The primary difficulties are establishing medical consensus on what kind of pressure therapy is best (continuous vs bi-level) because that affects the availability of machines a lot and there's some disagreement. Secondary is how to stop patients on CPAP machines spraying virus into the air through the masks, however, at least one CPAP machine manufacturer thinks that concern is actually overblown and points to a study showing CPAP masks don't aerosolise to the extent current medical consensus seems to think.
Something very clear is that doctors are still figuring out treatment for this and there's some disagreement over what the right way to do things is. Disturbingly it may be that current medical consensus makes things worse for COVID-19 patients rather than better i.e. bi-level pressure therapy hurts the lungs in that state rather than helps (perhaps contributing to a high death rate?).