Hours after a Fox News interview in which he downplayed a national shortage of hospital ventilators to treat patients infected with the coronavirus, President Trump fired off a number of tweets Friday blaming General Motors and its CEO, Mary Barra, for not manufacturing more of them.
As usual with “this” General Motors, things just never seem to work out. They said they were going to give us 40,000 much needed Ventilators, “very quickly”. Now they are saying it will only be 6000, in late April, and they want top dollar. Always a mess with Mary B. Invoke “P”.The president explained in a later tweet that “P” stood for the Defense Production Act, which many U.S. governors have been demanding Trump use to compel businesses to produce badly needed medical supplies and equipment.
Story continuesGovernors, including New York’s Andrew Cuomo, have been asking the federal government for tens of thousands of additional ventilators to treat patients in respiratory distress from COVID-19. In New York state, the hardest-hit part of the country, more than 39,000 people have tested positive for the virus, and more than 500 have died from it.
Hours later, however, Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he believed Cuomo’s numbers were inflated. Following Friday’s tweets attacking GM and painting the shortage of ventilators as a dire, all-caps situation, Trump then issued a more upbeat assessment. Ventilators can mean the difference between life and death for COVID-19 patients whose inflamed lungs fill with fluid. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading medical expert on infectious diseases on the coronavirus task force, has stated that 15 to 20 percent of those who contract the coronavirus will require hospitalization. Cuomo has estimated that 40 to 80 percent of New York’s 20 million residents could become infected, although the majority of cases so far have been mild.
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