A Question About Planning On the Return of COVID19 In the Fall

“In 1941, 9 years prior to the passage of the Defense Production Act, Edsel Ford (Henry Ford’s only son) and Charlie Sorensen, the company’s foremost production guru, (apparently voluntarily) began mobilizing the most ambitious industrial project in history up to that time: a factory that could turn out the biggest, most destructive bomber in the American arsenal, the B-24 Liberator, at a rate of one per hour…”

The History Channel:
https://www.history.com/news/wwii-detroit-auto-factories-retooled-homefront

In March of 2020, Ford announced “plans to make as many as 50,000 simple ventilators for coronavirus patients within 100 days…”

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/business/ford-ge-healthcare-ventilators/index.html

That’s about 21 per hour….And we’d still be short of the current national requirements…

The Defense Production Act gives the President of the United States the authority and power to require an industry to retool and produce specified materials and equipment needed during a national emergency:

https://www.fema.gov/media-library/assets/documents/15666

The scientists and medical experts say that it is a certainty that we will experience a resurgence of the Coronavirus in the fall…

The fact of premature reopening/restarting of the economy is sure to exacerbate or accelerate the recurrent spread of COVID19.

I believe that we can and should do better re our preparation and level of preparedness for what we ‘know’ to be coming.

We should readily be able to meet, or exceed, the predictable demand for the materials and equipment required to respond to the anticipated resurgence of the pandemic…

So, here’s my question:

If ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’, how much is a similar measure of preparation worth?