FILE PHOTO: A shipment containing medical aid from the United States, including 50 ventilators, is carried after being unloaded from a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Vnukovo International Airport amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Moscow, Russia May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool/File Photo
New Jersey and New York did not end up using the ventilators. But details first reported by Reuters about the shipment has drawn scrutiny from Congressional Democrats. The last minute notification meant the ventilators headed for the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak did not first receive FDA authorization.
New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, who oversees the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said the Reuters report raises “serious concerns about whether President Trump and his aides at the White House may have kept FDA experts in the dark while they rushed to bring in these ventilators from Russia.”
A day later, the Russian embassy announced that “Russia may send a plane with medical equipment and protection gear to the United States.” To help cope with the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic that has now infected more than 1.7 million Americans and killed over 100,000, the FDA had introduced an emergency protocol to allow ventilators to be distributed without the agency’s routine, and more time-consuming, approval process.
OH MY GOD!!! NOT RUSSIA!!! We should be getting those from China instead.
News 📢 Russian ventilators hit the American public health system... Are they wired?
That's because trump the traitor and the republicans wanted their cut first.
Keystone cops.
The ones that caught fire during use?!?
Those were the ones catching fires and then sent to India ?
Oh how I wish this story were big news tonight
In the “fog of war” panic, early on, we were looking for vents from anywhere we could get them. Great we didn’t need, or use theirs, nor the ones we sent to Russia. Other treatment methods were found more effective & kept many from needing to go on. Q:Why not send their own back?
I hope they were tested before they were used.🤔
the White House has failed
Slow news night? Really?
Trump needs to walk the streets of LA tonight
There are sooooo may red flags. So many cases of sneaky back door curruption. Hopefully we learn how to make sure not another conman takes advantage of a rural less educated minority
Way before U.S. just aiding Russia with ventilators? I hope they shipped them!
Who cares
Slipped their mind, I’m sure.
Send them to NY. Remember how many he 'needed.'
Trump is King. He doesn’t care
This is not news
Of course....
Why am i not surprised
Any idea as to how Trump will return the favor to Putin for the ventilators offered by Russia to America during coronavirus pandemic outbreak
Are Americans so racist to refuse help because its from Russia... Russian people didn't have a problem receiving help from America... And then people are surprised by the way Americans treat African Americans....
He sucks
So?
What did they actually ship? It were necessary to know. Could it be something more or less? No inspections no approval by FDA?
Aren't those the same make of ventilators that was catching fire... just asking for a friend. My dumb as question now is this..... Why does America want them. Trump have a problem with testing since the numbers making him look bad. Plus won't they making them in America?
Russian collusion? Oh, the horror if it all!
This shit is what Reuters is complaining about when Cuomo sent 6,000 people with Covid back into nursing homes TO DIE!!!!!!! realDonaldTrump
opps
Flammable Russian ventilators?!?!? Thanks, Trump!
What a clown show.
We never needed them. Gov. Cuomo demanded 40,000 ventilators but needed only 6,000 and Trump supplied him with more than that from our stocks of American ventilators.
Money laundering.
Is this because Jared Kushner want to keep them for ‘themselves’? When he referred to the national stockpile of medical supplies as 'our stockpile' and not one belonging to states, in April?
so what?
It was Announced to the public what else need to be done.
Fake news, on his corona virus address back then he mentioned countries that helped them with equipment and mentioned Russia, the media is so evil.
Because yall would of pitched a fit about colluding with the Russians and their ventilators.
So?
Lol of course
Think about Bill Gates is working together with Putin and you get your chips. 😇
What if they were purposely tainted?
Trump's Coronavirus Task Force:
Why would he have to alert the FDA,? The FDA approved aspartame with a cancer warning but not vitamins!!!! Why would they need to approve ventilators
Knew they were defective and a publicity stunt?
Maybe the people under him are incompetent and should have taken the initiative to look into it when they heard about it. Thats what good employees do.
briantylercohen weijia
How dare people accept offers to save lives? RIOT!!!!
Were they needed? Maybe that’s why, morons
I think that Roger Stone was holding on to them while the price was going up on EBay....
Oh man. Capitalism in front of communism!
et alors
I just can't be surprised by the actions done by this administration anymore. It's too exhausting.
If my loved one needed a ventilator I wouldn’t care where the hell it came from.
It was announced publically. Duh. Fake news.
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