The companies told committee staff that obtaining personal protective equipment for U.S. medical personnel and patients under current conditions is “not sustainable,” Maloney wrote.
This includes 249 flights delivering over 5.3 million N95 respirators, 937 million gloves, 122 million surgical masks, 63.3 million gowns, and 2.6 million face/eye shields. Instead of creating a federal clearinghouse for purchasing and distribution, a project led by Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner known as “Project Airbridge” was created to provide free air transportation for certain companies importing PPE.
Attempts by states and medical providers to procure supplies through Chinese brokers has “led to a series of problems,” the memo argues, such as contractors failing to report back the price of PPE paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
I believe democrats already stressed this but but republican government failed to listen! Now red states are really feeling the burn because of your misinformation. These are your base, there will be no one left wake up! Stop threatening start helping!
So you said -months ago.
House memo? GTFO! 🤣
American Healthcare is given $4 Trillion a year... And they can't even stock up on basic supplies? A term coined by Johns Hopkins Doctor Makary comes to mind: 'marketing nonexistent excellence'.
No worries. It’s gonna disappear any day now.
I understand setting up an n95 production line is not simple but it appears we didn’t even try. Restarting a few 3M lines was nice but isn’t going to cut it.
The procurement of PPE by government officials shows us how purchasing and supply chains work. We are paying too much money for goods not manufactured here, and inventories are loosely controlled and quickly depleted. The single-use, free PPE model is going to suffocate us.
This can't be true. The Fuhrer Trump said the motherland was protected....he said the virus would be gone by summer, he said we don't need masks....I think someone is deliberately misguiding the US.....who can it be? Trump is a murderer!!!!
To smo znali od ranije, ali netko mora 'zaraditi' na lažnim zaštitama (maske,zaštitna odijela), ništa nije ustvari od toga prava zaštita, jer ih nema dovoljno i ne koriste se kako treba, a na nekima piše direktno da ne štite od covid-19
Then stop doing tic tok videos while wearing them.
No one wants to make money selling this? I don't believe it.
Is mask enforcement where social distancing is impossible sustainable? YES
PaHouseDems Unfathomable that we are in this position 6 MONTHS LATER. The Trump admin is directly responsible and there are real consequences
MalcolmNance Thug45 and his minions keep saying the governors are pleased with his handling of Covid19 and dont need anything. Either they are incompetent or someone is lying. Governors need to go back to screaming about the shortages. MSNBC
MalcolmNance Wow this is complete blindside. Trump said this was all under control & Jared had taken care of PPE issues. I am sure the National stockpile is restocked & ready to be shipped in an efficient way.
Where’s Bobblehead Mike and Donnie the Conman?
MalcolmNance I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise
MalcolmNance Please tell me again how we're the 'greatest country in the world'.
“Trump Administration “spent many weeks pressing them to buy PPE directly from one particular Chinese company” — BYD, a Chinese electric car and battery manufacturer heavily subsidized by the Chinese government”. PressSec WHY would realDonaldTrump admin want to do this?!?
KellyRek Good news....
meh, it’s a hoax. A scam to make money.
I saw surgical masks and face shields at Walmart a few days ago.
MalcolmNance Oh.
MalcolmNance The richest and most powerful country in the world has its medical staff wearing garbage bags as personal protective equipment?
MalcolmNance “Despite months of effort, there are still severe shortages of PPE and critical medical equipment, and the Trump administration has no coherent strategy to address these deficiencies,” Maloney wrote.
MalcolmNance
MalcolmNance After all this time, simply fucking amazing.
VP Do your job!
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Translation: Money! We want more taxpayer money!
Back to square one. All very predictable. It will now be much harder to recover from. America will be the leper on the world stage, alone and with a decaying economy and eventually, society. Leaving everyone to fend for themselves is not a strategy, it’s a recipe for disaster.
Every little bit helps. coronavirus
Well then fucken make more
But what about the airplane parade did that help?
But....but. .Trump said..
A group of ladies, volunteered to make 1000 gowns for Sutter Health. I’ve made 30 for Dr. and have 30 more to make! I’m still working on the extra fabric we had for Sutter Health!! We can’t leave our frontline workers exposed to greater risks!! They need PPE!
That the Trump Administration actively refuses to coordinate PPE purchases is unconscionable. An embarrassment. A dereliction of duty. Trump and his crew have completely walked away from our medical professionals.
Why not some good news once and awhile? Like NBC is closing due to lack of truth tellers, they lie when the truth would be a better story!!
IBJIYONGI How has this happened again? Oh I know, an incompetent administration
Yes more deaths with a virus which seems has one function to morph and kill faster. I just can't wait to see the numbers from Mt. Rushmore outbreak and all Independence Day covidiots this is going to get a whole lot worse and people just will not listen. I'm
weakscience
Wear a mask and be careful to help stop covid-19. Black lives matter. Vote. Care for all. =
Due in large part to the enormous backlog of elective surgeries that weren’t performed for over 3 months.
the president isn't a warehouse, remember...
NBC must stand for: Negative But Consistent
Good who cares the shit isn’t as bad as your saying.
Arriadna You know who has power but are constrained to use it, healthcare Frontline. They're licensed to care for ppl. If they abandoned the care they can lose that license. What If they left their post unless a coordinated mitigation effort is made immediately? Take your sick home.
Arriadna Trump and co-conspirators have to go! They've had 4mos to shore up PPE supplies.
I work for the largest supplier, we have NOTHING still, gowns, masks, caps, shoe covers, oxygen tube connectors....Mfg cannot keep up with demand.
Cubfan13241 Tell me something I don't know.
Fakenews
Jerad has it under control. Masks: $50. Gowns: $100. Ventilators: $10,000. Act now while prices are low. MAGA hat included with every order.
You had your turn., That's what my plan calls for.. No. Look., They did it in the Ebola crisis., I'm not gonna stop anymore, all right? . ClimateTownHall There 's no great day to organize - but COVID-19 is sh ould be unnecessary stronger of your long critical fun
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to drive up prices maybe? Any the gullible media yearning for political propaganda helps them out....
You’ve had FOUR FRIGGIN MONTHS TO PREPARE FOR THIS!!!! .
You mean those cute homemade masks don't work?
Like I believe anything nbc says lol
Meanwhile the prez throws a covid party on mount Rushmore because he cant help himself or others
Terror Panic and Alarm. Oh my. Silly and Absurd BS. Consistent
We make our own now in Canada because the US was hoarding and stealing everyone else’s PPE. Perhaps this is karma? The idiot running your country should be in jail for neglecting his own people and letting them die with his ignorance.
Well then hetvof your tears and retool and increase hiring.
Just wash the masks, it’s not that hard.
We need to do a national order to create USA made PPe - hoarding and price gouging for profit is costing lives - foreign PPe supply is going to be cut to zero once flu season hits
Shouldn’t have offshored our manufacturing and blocked Medicare for All! When will you learn...never, I know.
More BS FROM CHINA
4 months and they cant figure out how to ramp up production? What kind of companies are they
Trump said this morning that Pence called all governors and they said that they didn't need anything.
Isn't jared sitting on a stockpile of ppe?
leave it up to nbc to spread the fear
Democrats asked the President to act in MARCH to start fixing this problem, and we're still at square one. PPEshortage COVIDー19
You have got to be kidding me! This is so untrue and an obvious last ditch ploy to keep people scared!
Sounds like hospitals are hoarding supplies since they don’t have to pay for it at the moment.
No worries. Russia will sell us back the PPE trump recently shipped to them.
Just wear a bandanna. Right? 🖕
Liberals demanding everyone wear a mask, and then crying and wondering why health care workers might have a hard time getting them. Terrible people.
gosh. we've had 6 months with this and we still don't have masks? we can make a factory of ventilators? but we can't make plastic masks?
Why are we still dealing with shortages?
So what their saying is they can't help, so wear mask, stay home & maybe you will not die. Ppl are born and ppl die, it's life. How we die no one knows. We each have our own path. Fear is the disease.Take care of yourselves and your families. Do what's right.
The United States of America is not capable of producing enough PPE because of the incompetence of this administration! Trump has destroyed the greatness of this country. Trump is a Russian agent!
Federal mask enforcement is needed
Maybe we can ask for some back from Russia
Fearmongering. Everyone will die at some point. LiveWithAbandon Report the real news... USCBP seizes Uighur prisoner's hair from labor camps. StandWithHongKong StopPanderingToWeThePpl
If only we had prior warning...
We've known about coronavirus since January, it's been bad since March. How are we still struggling with testing and basic medical supplies in July?
Here we go again. Trump apparently has done nothing since last mash-up. Here we go!
Well isn’t that special
Here we go again.
Why is there no organized national push to up the supply of masks, hand sanitizer, PPE, etc..... Because our president is a spoiled rich kid that inherited everything and has no organizational skills?
I am telling you this right now., It's a dictatorship.. You know..., I'm confident of it.. Street and listen
National guard can come out for riots but not build tents in fields for COVID patients? Real American troops
Well now! The shoe is on the other foot! All the states that chastised and degraded other states governors for begging for test kits and PPE equipment during April and May are now going through the same exact l thing. Irony at its best.
Here we go again
What a damn mess. So as Trump and his allies sabotage testing sites through the 'lack of supplies' and 'shorter hours because of the heat' excuses he asserts once again that the virus will disappear and that he's doing a great job. The man is insane.
Only mind games.
Fake news as always.
iam_sysop Geez, thanks for spending over 700 BILLION dollars PER YEAR on 'defense.' The Oligarchs that own D.C. don't give a damn about the People.
iam_sysop And what, may I ask, is the administration doing about this?
We can build thousands of ships, millions of aircraft, tens of thousands of tanks, billions of bombs...but not 93 cent masks? The fish rots from the head that’s for sure 🤦🏻♂️
Didn't someone enact the defence production act? Why is this still a problem?
Good, let them be exposed.
Seriously! This is July now! What did the government do all this time? Rather irresponsible and incompetence. Should American NOT wearing mask from now on and let the medical team have it? One could build a factory to make all these PPE in a month!
Of course it is, this country is led by someone that couldn't be successful in business after getting fronted half a billion dollars and could care less about anything other than getting reelected.
NBC is the fake news
Stop the bs, you were posting videos and photos of “nurse with BLM” and “experts” issuing statements supporting the “peaceful” protests, then claim there’s a sudden uptick 2 weeks later? Now crying about PPE shortage. Get lost.
Well don’t ask jaredkushner because his stock pile is for ...him, I guess, I don’t really know who it’s for but he says it’s not for states so basically the WhiteHouse says go fuck yourself. Huh. So surprising.
Yup.... I remember nurses in north jersey wearing garbage bags back in March. No one cared 🤷♀️🤦♀️😵
HeidiNBC We have a surplus. We are now supplying other countries.
HeidiNBC
j082298 HeidiNBC Must be too many used for props in DancingNurses videos cuz hospitals around the world are, get this: EmptyHospitals
HeidiNBC I would act surprised but I’m a nurse who does testing and owns his own business doing so. It’s impossible to find decent masks and gowns were exorbitantly priced.
HeidiNBC If only someone had the power to get these companies to work together and obtain raw materials or components and manufacture more.
HeidiNBC Good thing the virus is nearly over. flattenthefear and do your job
HeidiNBC Wait until they start talking about testing kits.
In the memo, House Oversight Cmte. Chair Maloney wrote that as the pandemic flares anew in several states, the companies are cautioning that the supply of PPE for medical staff is not meeting demand and that prices for raw materials have increased “dramatically.” (2/4)
HeidiNBC LOL More lies from FakeNewsMedia
HeidiNBC More pathetic fear porn
HeidiNBC
If you want to see how the PPE bidding/auctioning takes place look at this. We went through this months ago. If you already know healthcare supply chain, skip first 3 mins. Getting PPE now is not buying masks, its buying manufacturing ti get masks etc.
I'm not listening to this again because they are going to say some stupid crap like 'oh study's show that masks don't help' then we start this vicious cycle again. Nahh. I didn't RSVP to this Bullshit party
This is not a valid news story. We know that certain companies have produced massive quantities of PPE and not one governor voiced a concern on this with VP. FakeNews EnemyOfThePeople
Use antimicrobial cloth or carbon activated filters in cloth masks that can be washed and reused. Hospitals have sanitizing equipment for surgical tools. USE IT FOR THE MASKS. EVERY problem has a solution. Think outside of the box. No need to be so short sighted and dramatic.
You people are overreacting
This bullshit again. Russia? 🤷🏾🐑🐑🐑🐑
Don't worry. The president says it's just going to go away. And he knows more about everything than anybody. coronavirus TrumpKillsUS COVID19
Not as long as we keep relying on other countries to supply us after they've met their own needs. We need to bring back manufacturing to the US.
Space suits for everyone elonmusk
Trump failure of leadership. AGAIN.