Fact check: President Trump has said the nationwide shortage of ventilators, masks and other crucial medical equipment was unforeseen. But medical experts have said for years that the US would face a shortage of ventilators in a pandemic like Covid-19.
During a White House news conference, Trump was asked about the shortages and responded by falsely suggesting that the problem was unforeseen. He also shrugged off responsibility for the crisis and encouraged states to find their own resources."Where you have a problem with ventilators -- we're working very hard trying to find ," the President said."Nobody in their wildest dreams would have ever thought that we'd need tens of thousands of ventilators.
"Another study, released in April 2015 by the NIH and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, estimated that the US would likely need as many as 60,000 additional ventilators to deal with a severe flu pandemic scenario. Those additional machines could save 35,000 to 306,000 American lives, depending on the percentage of people who get sick, the report said.These studies also noted that the problem is bigger than a lack of machines.
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