Eight days later, on March 13, Trump declared the outbreak a
On Thursday, Trump threatened in a tweet to “hit 3M hard” through a Defense Production Act order, saying the company “will have a big price to pay!” He gave no specifics. Greg Burel, director of the Strategic National Stockpile from 2007 until his retirement at the start of this year, said the cache was only ever intended to serve as a short-term “bridge-stock.”
“Most of the time, commercially available products like masks can be bought in quantity at the time of an event.”, much of the world’s supply of N95 masks and other basic medical supplies is made in China, the first nation hit by COVID-19. As a result, the Chinese government required its producers to reserve N95 respirators for domestic use. China resumed exports of the masks only in recent days.
Cuomo said New York may need as many as 40,000 ventilators to deal with the outbreak that is already overwhelming hospitals there. Steve Klink, a spokesman for Royal Philips in Amsterdam, said the company is now focused on producing its other commercial models and will deliver the first ventilators to the national stockpile by August, long after the White House projects COVID-19 cases will peak.
So using a quote from an Obama HHS worker “we wasted 2 months” isn’t an opinion piece? If I do my math correctly she’s saying in early Jan. they should have been ordering billions of masks, etc? How many cases did US have then? When did WHO say it was a public health emergency?
WHO WHO should establish an emergency global forum of scientist of international acclaim to may find out an immediate & earliest anti dot vaccine needs to be prepared to fight out this Coronavirus infection to have become a global havoc pendamic and to have gripped d humanity.
Why dont you focus on the real enemy. CHINA
LIE ... Associated hypocrites
Sick of you demented journalists. You see, we know that ventilators were available for New York, the the governor screwed up. DiBlasio was so cocky that he went to the gym in the am! Democrats cannot think for themselves. They are sheep being led to the slaughter.
Up. Democrats wasted months on their bullshit impeachment that should have been spent preparing
You are dreaming
Now if states would have stockpiled on their own instead of wasting billion of taxpayer on Green project like in NY, the stress on the federal stock pile would have been much less. Blame the state governor's failure to protect their residents, not the federal government!
The travel bans were insituted in mid January... Media & Dems cried, 'xenophobia'. China lied about the actual numbers of death's and infections. Medical equipment can't be manufactured fast enough... hardly the administration's fault.
What in the hell has the CDC been doing for the last 5 years aside from Orange Man Badding?
Maybe change the headline from U.S. wasted to Trump wasted.
reality is who can you place the bulk orders with?china? They are still short of medical equipment until march. You should not exported medical equipment to china until you are sure you have enough reserves to prepared for pandemic.
And who made money off the shortages? And then who did those contracts go to?
One Trump golf outing costs how many ventilators? justsaying
So from January 20th 2017 to March 2020 he did nothing to replenish the stockpile while blaming Obama. Sounds about right for his blame others world.
Garbage opinion piece not labeled correctly.
trump & his administration failed the American people with lies & Ignorance!
Fake News, AP. No one is listening anymore!
It’s almost like we elected a completely unqualified person to the highest position in the country.
Because the governors failed their states
mid-f'ing-March?! We were OURSELVES trying to find TP, sanitizer, and clorox wipes before then. Incompetent asses.
Tell us about ventilator's again California gave a large number back now NY has extra as well as Washington gave back.
Because of stupid WHO, who misled the whole world.
Is the Trump administration the only entity responsible for ordering equipment? Do hospitals, municipalities, states or other orgs ever order medical equipment?
Poor demented Kooky Left going after Trump in any way they can. WON'T WORK
This was either the result of criminally negligent behavior by the administration or the result of criminal activity by a President at a never before seen level. Either way, it's resulted in needless deaths and economic suffering.
No mention that the Obama Administration left it depleted and Democrats in Congress have not let up on their constant harassment of Trump since before his inauguration.
There are no words.
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