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Federal agencies warn in private conference calls that reopening too soon could worsen the coronavirus outbreak and exhaust the nation's reserves of equipment

U.S. President Donald Trump tours a Honeywell facility manufacturing protective masks for the coronavirus disease pandemic in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., May 5, 2020.Multiple federal agencies are sounding the alarm behind closed doors that reopening too soon could have catastrophic consequences for the US' supplies of key equipment, Politico reported.

In a May 1 call, one official said that if lockdowns are prematurely lifted and cases increases, it could exhaust the nation's ventilator supply by early June.As President Donald Trump projects a message of optimism about the coronavirus outbreak in the US, his own federal agencies are sounding the alarm behind closed doors that reopening too soon could have catastrophic consequences.

"Ventilators, which were few & in bad shape, are now being produced in the thousands, and we have many to spare,", adding that "Face masks & shields, gloves, gowns etc. are now plentiful." Politico reported that while Trump boasts about the United States' ventilator supply, one model shown in a presentation slide in one of the calls presented a scenario where lockdown are eased, cases rise again, and the all the country's ventilators are used up by the first week of June.

 

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