Obama had 8 years to stock ventilators and masks after H1N1... it seems this should have been done then if it truly is the President’s responsibility.
I saw the interview and the CMS female never came close to answering Martha’s question.
Almost like, ask her what day comes after Monday and she’d talk about the benefit of wearing gloves in winter.
Evasive, deep stater,in my opinion.
I saw the interview and wasn’t impressed with her answers to that question. She should have said it’s impossible to answer that question because we don’t know how fast the cases will increase here and that we’re as well prepared as we can be.
Of course, if she had said that, the media would be blaring “Trump administration official says we are not prepared.”
I wonder how fast we could ramp production of ventilators?
What’s the production rate in the US now?
What could we ramp it too?
How fast can they be produced?
What’s the current backlog of orders?
Can we drive the cost down with volume?
Are there cheaper alternatives, ventilators without as many options, that could be produced?
Just googling it looks like prices range from $500 TO $6000.
Seems like we should buy another 100,000 at $500 = $50 million. Depending on how fast they can be delivered.
We just passed an $8.3 billion bill.
I wonder how fast we could ramp production of ventilators?
What’s the production rate in the US now?
What could we ramp it too?
How fast can they be produced?
What’s the current backlog of orders?
Can we drive the cost down with volume?
Are there cheaper alternatives, ventilators without as many options, that could be produced?
Just googling it looks like prices range from $500 TO $6000.
Seems like we should buy another 100,000 at $500 = $50 million. Depending on how fast they can be delivered.
We just passed an $8.3 billion bill.
It is disappointing that some FR posters are not able to see that the question was a gottcha, designed to make the interviewee look wrong anyway the question was answered. Those questions always make the person being questioned look awkward because they must be polite and they are handicapped by knowing that their response will be quoted in misleading partial words.
I’m sure that there is not enough time to formulate & rehearse answers in advance to gottcha questions at a time when there is real time change & evolution in the course of the viral outbreak resulting in fine tuning of the Country’s response.
When people who are trying to be truthful are pushed beyond what they can honestly say into making statements about a future they can have guesses about but where no one knows with certainty, it is a perversion of journalism.
It is a purposeful distortion of reality that weaponizes people’s desire to know what can’t be known into a scapegoating of the interviewee by redirecting the audience frustration and anxiety toward the interviewee. The honest interviewer would acknowledge that no one knows but experts have the most informed opinion and that is the best anyone can do.
“Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma”
She was very robotic and did not answer Martha Maccallum’s questions. Best thing I can say is that Miss Verma was pro-Trump.
This might be the first journalistic effort I’ve seen from a Fox host in many years. Good for her, and Martha, IT ISN”T TRUMP’s FAULT! He has spent the last 3.5 years trying to stay out of jail based on fake charges. Thank you #FakeNews & the rotten, stinking Dems.
Maybe Ms. Verma can conjure ventilators out of thin air to appease Ms. McCallum.
Let’s just stop for a second...In the town where you (Mr. and Mrs. America) live, is your local hospital “ready” to handle an influx of emergency patients if that influx was approximately 1/10th of your municipality’s population? 1/20th? 1/100th?
In the town where I live (in northern NC) there are, say, about 15,000 people. 1/10th of that population is 1500 people. 1/20th of that population is 750 people. 1/100th of that population is 150 people. The little local hospital in my area has approximately 40 beds, 80 if they open up an up till now unused floor.
Question: What place on earth is “ready” for a pandemic of such magnitude?
Wasn’t there a tax on medical devices?
NIH+CDC+WHO+CMS=dysfunction
That must be like 50 Chiefs.
I made the mistake of turning Martha’s program on yesterday. She has gone over the edge in her attempts to tarnish Trump. I quit Bret Baier a long time ago and now they are pairing Martha with Bret for ‘updates’. FoxNews is very quickly becoming irrelevant in our home. And they will not get Leftists so they will soon tank and have to revamp. AOC apparently appeared on Bret’s show yesterday. If that doesn’t inform you about the viewers that FoxNews wants, then nothing will.
Her next move will be cnn and she will be much more comfortable.
Roger Ailes is rolling over and over in his grave and the elder Murdock has to be regretting giving his liberal sons the reins at FOX.
SAD.