José Camacho ordered 20,000 N95 masks in late March, but before he could pay for them, the Federal Emergency Management Agency bought the vendor’s entire supply in under an hour.
It’s the chaotic reality thousands of nonprofit health providers, hospital administrators, and even local and state government officials now experience due to a lack of coordination at the federal level.Rare look at stockpile handouts shows which states got ventilators, masks amid coronavirus “The Defense Production Act allows these federal agencies to require private sector vendors to prioritize delivery of critical items to the federal government during an emergency, even if they have to delay or cancel contracts with other customers,” FEMA said in an emailed statement.The US needs masks to fight coronavirus, but supplies from China fell as demand rose
“Looking back with 20/20 hindsight it’s such a big hole in the process,” he said. “There’s no connection between the state of Ohio or the state of Indiana. It doesn’t really allow them a birdseye view with a pure nationalist perspective to move the resources where they should be.” “The federal government should immediately establish a ‘medical equipment czar’ and associated task force with the mission of overseeing the national supply and distribution of medical supplies. They should do this for the duration of the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis to maximize the health and wellbeing of the entire U.S. population. Working in close coordination with the Defense Logistics Agency on logistics and national distribution,” the letter said.
State leaders however, have spoken up about being outbid by another state or by the federal government.the state had a line on needed equipment when"FEMA came out and bought it all out from under us." Vyas has spoken with dozens of hospital administrators who are inundated with offers from unknown firms. One California hospital got solicited by 50 suppliers, he said.
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'No one from the DLA (Defense Logistics Agency, part of the Department of Defense) responded to several attempts to ask about coordinating purchasing during the pandemic.'
'USA TODAY asked officials at FEMA whether the administration considered centralized purchasing, but officials would not address those questions. The White House declined to comment Friday.'
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