As the number of coronavirus patients surges, America's national stockpile of medical equipment is nearly drained. AP found the Trump administration waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders of vital medical equipment.
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.
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