Posted on 04/07/2020 5:27:51 PM PDT by bitt
A 2006 pandemic plan warned that New York City could be short as many as 9,500 ventilators. But the city only acquired a few hundred, which were ultimately scrapped because it couldn’t afford to maintain them.
In July 2006, with an aggressive and novel strain of the flu circulating in Asia and the Middle East, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a sweeping pandemic preparedness plan.
Using computer models to calculate how a disease could spread rapidly through the city’s five boroughs, experts concluded New York needed a substantial stockpile of both masks and ventilators. If the city confronted a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 Spanish flu, the experts found, it would face a “projected shortfall of between 2,036 and 9,454 ventilators.”
The city’s department of health, working with the state, was to begin purchasing ventilators and to “stockpile a supply of facemasks,” according to the report. Shortly after it was released, Bloomberg held a pandemic planning summit with top federal officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, now the face of the national coronavirus response.
In the end, the alarming predictions failed to spur action. In the months that followed, the city acquired just 500 additional ventilators as the effort to create a larger stockpile fizzled amid budget cuts.
Even those extra ventilators are long gone, the health department said on Sunday. The lifesaving devices broke down over time and were auctioned off by the city at least five years ago because the agency couldn’t afford to maintain them.
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Who bought them?
Is there actually a problem currently with a lack of vents, or just a lot of talk about someday maybe?
Bush’s Fault?
Trump’s Fault?
Not my fault?
Not a smidgen of fault?
It was Epstein, he needed them for the underground tunnels. /s
The US and the world pay a steep steep price for that one city.
9/11/01
2020
Let Alqeda,ISIS and the PLO have NYC.
Who bought them?
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It’s a long read, but...it’s in the article...
...Annual maintenance costs for the 500 VersaMed ventilators, which includes replacing batteries and degrading parts, ran over $100,000 per year, Lanza said, adding that the ventilators were ultimately auctioned off by the city. It’s not clear who bought the devices and for how much. A GE spokeswoman said the city had a service contract for the ventilators that expired sometime between 2014 and 2016, and added that the company still has customers with service contracts for the same model ventilator....
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A lot of good/interesting info in that article.
Like....the typical lib buzzword....fill the gap....with additional funding....
NO !!! There’s enough of them already staged in America waiting for the GO Order. Get the Conservatives out and stick the commiedemonratscumbags from Middle America in nyc. Put up tall electric fence and moats with Gators & Pirhanna. Supplement with Mine Field.
Did you skip “Obama’s fault?”
O’Bungles is the ‘smidgen’ in my comment
He kinda was a smidgen of a pres()ent
Well well well....
$100,000 a year is a rounding error in the NYC budget.
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According to the article?
According to the NYC website their 2020 budget is 95.3 BILLION dollars.
$100,000.00 is a rounding error.
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$100K/yr was for the maintenance costs, on these vents, before they were auctioned, in 2006. (Batteries, parts, etc.)
Not sure what your point is, or what I’m missing.
Can you explain?
Seems to me you are making reference to their ethnic origins or something.
Did you mean to call them “greedy Jews” or am I putting words into your bigoted mouth?
Sorry I was unclear.
The claims of “budget cuts” ring pretty damned hollow if all they needed was 100k a year to maintain these machines when the city budget runs 90 billion a year.
That was my point.
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Thanks.
Maybe I need to take Focus Factor...lol.
Yes, agree. That makes perfect sense. And, especially considering that the maintenance company said they are STILL servicing this particular model of vent.
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