In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 photo provided by the U.S. Air National Guard, airmen from the 146th Airlift Wing of the California Air National Guard in Oxnard, Calif., deliver 200 ventilators to the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base, adjacent to Newburgh, N.Y.
WASHINGTON — The Strategic National Stockpile is nearly out of the N95 respirators, surgical masks, face, shields, gowns and other medical supplies desperately needed to protect front-line medical workers treating coronavirus patients. “The President failed to bring in FEMA early on, failed to name a national commander for this crisis, and failed to fully utilize the authorities Congress gave him under the Defense Production Act to procure and manage the distribution of critical supplies,” Maloney said. “He must take action now to address these deficiencies.”
Federal contracting records show HHS made a $4.8 million order of N95 masks on March 12, followed by a $173 million order on March 21. But those contracts don’t require the manufacturer to start making deliveries to the national stockpile until the end of April, after the White House has projected the pandemic will reach its peak.
He can ask CA for some in 6 mo when this is over.
mbieseck Tell me why didn't the previous admin ensure the ppe was restocked after the h1n1 pandemic? U r chasing the wrong horse. The responsible folks are mostly still there. ask them. been_jimmy
mbieseck why were US companies allowed to sell their huge stock piles of health PPT to China during the original out break their WH and Trump know and allowed to happen
mbieseck Another award winning article by fakeass AP liberals aholes pushing socialist agenda
Check around. I’d bet the trump brothers and kushner have a few warehouses full to sell on the black market.
A sign of an idiot president! more signs: Ignore or sluff off 2016 😷pandemic ideas from BarackObama. Disband 😷pandemic team '17. 2019 axe US Health offcl in Beijing, there to get early warning of viruses 😷 flu. Nov '19 ignore admin 😷warnings. 2020 Idiotic slow 😷react!
Listen to Daily TaskForceUpdates? This wk Millions More Gloves/Resp Masks/Gowns/Surgical Masks were delivered to States/Localities/HealthCare Facilities by FEMA/Nat Grd🇺🇸 New Stock: 90% Delivery & 10% FEMA. DURING ANY CRISIS STOCKPILES DECREASE~ 🤔Mountain Meet Mole Hill🤔
mbieseck So what came in the airbridge flights? Nothing? or maybe you didn't hear what was said during task force briefing? You know the one that started late Jan.
kenkircher1 So what, it is what the states have and can get that counts let alone cities, towns and medical facilities!
This lack of communication & being prepared opens up a weak point for any country to attack the country. It's all infuriating.
Wow completely different from the task force update wonder who is wrong. Fake news maybe
Don’t you people listen to the task force briefings? The quantities of PPE are recited daily & they are very impressive. Pay attention, get your facts straight before reporting FAKE NEWS!
Finally
Federal govt is going to stop funding testing on Friday.
It's a shame neither Obama or Trump had anyone replacing the stockpile as needed. The equipment from the Obama years that had to be discarded would have been useful.
Must hope States can somehow supply each other, as different areas hit peak needs, until new equipment begins to trickle in. Another attaboy for Presidential incompentent realDonaldTrump. Perhaps his incessant bragging, & conspiracy mongering will, magically, create supplies!
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STabbytosavit The trump administration will just steal some more from the states.🙄
BILLWALSHTV He had to help his buddies Vlad & Kim
Donald Trump has been president for three years. This failure is his and his alone. Any CEO who performed as abysmally during a crisis and completely failed to prepare for a crisis would be sent packing. Let's do that in November. VoteBlue TrumpPandemic COVID19 TrumpVirus
The federal government, ie, fema, has been confiscating protective gear - ordered and paid by several states - with regularity. Where is that gear going if not into the nation's stockpile?
Ah but you’re forgetting it is also responsibility at the State level to acquire these items and have their own stockpiles as well. If you’re going to blame Fed you also must blame the State.
So much for a strategic stockpile 🤦♂️
Hmmmmm. Who depleted 95 masks and didn’t replenish the stock? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
It's a nonstop disco with you guys isn't it.
Ask a game show host I guess
WajahatAli Texas received moldy masks from FEMA so it seems like states are on their own including having to bid against the federal government.
Fake News, they are buffering the national stockpile with every airbridge flight coming into america
I thought trump said they have millions of anything
Is this Keeping America Great? Cause it doesn’t feel very great right now.
trump had the chance and he blew it
Fake news
So the stockpile was never replenished under Bush II and Hussein Obama but somehow it’s the fault of realDonaldTrump Liberalism is a MENTAL DISORDER
Where?
Every state will have what they need when they need it. Distribution based on science - of new cases, those hospitalized AND hospital capabilities / current resources. coronavirustaskforce is efficient. Their work is saving lives. No one has died due to lack of resources.
Though it was WARNED IN NOVEMBBER
Idk what NYGovCuomo was talking about. There’s no way we have enough PPE because independent groups are still making them by hand and donating them to hospitals and first responders!! I know, because we’re fabricating and delivering them!
But they are directly distributing material as it comes off the assembly line. So stop the lies.
I can't shake the feeling that this is going to leave us in dire straits for the *next* 'failure to act quickly in a crisis' situation... ...but 100% this is what it's for. Get that PPE out to the folks who need it to save lives. 3
Have these hospitals ever heard if UV lights? Sanitize masks and re-use.
They sending those much needed ventilators to NY?
Should just let California take over the response. They've done a great job fighting the TrumpVirus
Why did they do this then?
Complete lack of planning.
Really? Wow... so what a weak stockpile... im sure like everything DT he rather cut cost to splurge on shit like golfing and a useless border wall...
So they're finally admitting they ran out of supplies because they didn't prepare? What is the spin for this?
yeah right. those r just the last ones they arent gna sell for profit.
I give it until Friday before a story breaks that the Trump administration has a secret stash that Republican governors will find themselves the beneficiary of.
Great get it out of there. It’s not helping anyone sitting in a warehouse somewhere.
If only there was a way to force companies to make PPE.