US short on coronavirus facemasks, ventilators: HHS secretary

Fox Business ^ | Feb 25, 2020 | Evie Fordham

[DannyTN]

The U.S. does not have enough facemasks or ventilators stockpiled to deal with threats of coronavirus spreading, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., asked Azar if the U.S. had enough facemasks stockpiled after he said the administration was seeking additional coronavirus funding "to support the acquisition of personal protective equipment, especially masks, into the strategic national stockpile."

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"Well, of course not, or we wouldn't be asking for a supplemental to seek more money," Azar said.

[RomanSoldier19]

This is what panic looks like

“Surgical face masks started selling out in pharmacies in Seattle hours after the first case of the new form of coronavirus in the U.S. was identified there last Tuesday, according to BBC News. The news website also reported the face covers have been unavailable in Washington since the weekend, with people making “runs on pharmacies” in New York, and stockpiling the items in Los Angeles.”

[laplata]

There is no excuse for this. There should be stockpiles of things like this.

And it’s criminal that we rely on China and India for so much of our medicine.

[dp0622]

How come everyone here lives and dies by what Trump says except when he says this is under control and the stock market is looking mighty cheap?

Make up your minds :)

BTW, I agree with him

[null and void]

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[TADSLOS]

But, but, but...Free Trade!/s

[rfp1234]

In order to fund critical HHS expenses, immediately cut all funding to:

NPR / CPB
National Endowment for Arts
Planned Abortionhood
‘Climate’ ‘research’ across several agencies
Transsexual surgery for federal inmates
The Congressional Sex Cover-up Settlement Hush Fund

Etc.

[cgbg]

I want to see a Democratic debate with all of the candidates wearing face-masks.

That would definitely improve the content of their word salads!

[Monkey Face]

If people kept a package of face masks and one of nitrile gloves on hand, there would be no need for panic. There’s actually no need for it anyway, unless you work in the medical profession and deal with lots of sick people on a daily basis.

Wash your hands, keep your hands away from your face and don’t shake hands!

;o]

‘Face

[laplata]

Yep. The corruption is insidious.

[Nuke From Orbit]

and this will be Trumps fault.... the media is already gearing up for this one. Also, was thinking about the timing of all this. Seems a bit to coincidental.

[Jane Long]

Exactly....and, Trump has been saying this, for years.

It’s almost like Congress has - for decades - set this country up for something like this.

CDC has had DECADES to prepare for pandemics.....MILLIONS of dollars....and yet, here we are, today, without working testing kits (the ones we DO have, don’t work...and, CDC isn’t expecting to get properly working kits, until....mid-March!), and an inadequate supply of masks, for our healthcare workers.

CDC is full of leftist, 0blama holdovers, including the head of the respiratory division, Nancy Messonnier...who, I’ve read, happens to also be Rod Rosenstein’s sister.

[DannyTN]

We do have a strategic stockpile of masks and ventilators.

Having it under control doesn’t mean you don’t need to make more preparations to ensure that it stays under control.

It’s now expected that we need a bigger stockpile.

For the moment it does seem under control. But there was expert testimony to Congress last week that said to expect outbreaks in the US, because there is no way we are catching everyone.

Even if there are outbreaks in the US, it will likely remain under control for some time.

And while I think Trump probably shouldn’t give stock market advice, do you expect Trump to talk the market down?

[DannyTN]

[pax_et_bonum]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a push for panic.

[Jane Long]

As I posted, recently...

They tried to take Trump down with Fake Mueller Investigation
They tried to take Trump down with Fake Impeachment Hoax

Now, these evil b@$turds will try to blame this on him.

All, while it was THEIR very own rules/regs/hacks that allowed these shortages/faulty test kits, etc., to happen.

[laplata]

Yes, the criminal media will be spinning this overtime.

[Jane Long]

We knew that meme was coming :)

[laplata]

They are all so evil that it boggles the mind.

Sometime I am amazed that the United States has stayed on top of the heap of nations.

[PghBaldy]

They should have had them stockpiled since at least Obama. We knew this day would come, as it does every now and then.