“This is not the way to do business,” the Governor of New York said about states competing for resources.
on Saturday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo criticized the federal government for making states compete with each other to buy medical supplies and said that despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, he had not yet been informed about the president’s“On purchasing, you can’t have a situation where 50 states are competing with each other to buy the same material—that is what is happening now,” Cuomo said during his press briefing. “We’re literally bidding up the prices ourselves.
Ventilators originally cost around $25,000 each, but because of increased competition among states all trying to outbid each other, prices have soared to around $45,000. The alternative would be to use a bag valve mask, which requires staff to operate it for a patient 24 hours a day, making it logistically difficult to rely on: “The short answer is no thank you,” Cuomo said.
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