Fact check: Did the Obama administration deplete the federal stockpile of N95 masks?

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During the presidency of Barack Obama, the national stockpile was seriously taxed as the administration addressed multiple crises over eight years.

About"75 percent of N95 respirators and 25 percent of face masks contained in the CDC's Strategic National Stockpile were deployed for use in health care settings over the course of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic response,"Again according to NIH, the stockpile's resources were also used during hurricanes Alex, Irene, Isaac and Sandy. Flooding in 2010 in North Dakota also called for stockpile funds to be deployed.

During the presidency of Donald Trump, analysts have warned the United States is not prepared for a serious pandemic.Experts say Trump's decision to disband pandemic team hindered coronavirus response “We assess that the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next flu pandemic or large scale outbreak of a contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls on the United States for support,” theThe Trump administration has not taken significant steps to replenish the masks in the Strategic National Stockpile.

 

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This must have hurt to write this. Most shocking part is the editors let it go to print.

2016 to 2020 ?

So previous administration has 6 years to replenish & they never did

Didn't restock and now want to criticize.

Real easy to blame Obama but the new guy had 3.5 years to restock the shelves. Instead he disbanded the whole dept on Day 1

Trump had 3 years to fix it

Obama administration didn’t have control of the purse... GOP did. Like Paul Ryan?

Shocker

Trump had 3 years to change this. Obviously Trump didn't give a 💩

So, the answer is yes, and they didn’t restock. Ok.

Even in the unlikely event that’s true, wtf has Trump been doing for the last 3 years? He’s had three years to fix what he claims was a problem. That he didn’t is entirely on him. And it’s criminal.

😂more BS fro your BS newspaper!

Always keepnya thinking? Divided we will,but fall United We Stand Tall... Our government makes sure to keep us hating each other, rather than them. WAKE UP AMERICA. We need our country back!

These stockpiles must have their products rotated. Any stockpile was designed for area of the country problem. Not the whole nation. It was for a terrorism attack.

Are you kidding me with this shit? Do better.

But when a NEW administration comes in it's THEIR job to check the stockpile and replenish it. New Prez, new Job, new Team. Duh. Figure that one out yet? Are you now blaming Obama too for something happening 4 yrs later? Really? Enough

Media covering for corrupt Obama

100 million N95 masks...all gone. 🤔

What? Why didn’t we shut down the economy?

****If you skip the long 💩 article with the excuses you will see a TRUE in regards to how the decisions of the Obama administration cost Americans lives.

Obama's Pandemic Response Team handled Africa's Ebola Crisis, informing Trump's administration on an impending pandemic and fired in 2018.

blaming someone else is very easy, I ask why years later the missing ones have not been replaced

Please, next time just put your answer right on top of the report.

This is brutal!

In the last 40 years America has centered the majority of its concerns around Wall Street interests, period no matter which party was in power.

And nothing was done to replenish it to levels needed. You and Obozo are both irresponsible

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