This decontamination of #N95 masks is happening today in one of our Battelle #CCDS Critical Care Decontamination Systems#ItCanBeDone #BattelleCCDS #inthistogether #flattenthecurve #PPE
Posted on 03/30/2020 6:26:46 PM PDT by weston
After announcing yesterday plans to build some 50k ventilators in 100 days, Ford and GE, which will be working on a product model by Airon Corp., added that the 100-day clock won’t start until April 20, and it’s likely that most of the ventilators won’t be ready until after the US surge, if one still happens.
“I think Tony would disagree with me … [but] we have a pandemic, we have people dying now,” Trump said, adding that he’d recently spoken with FDA and been frustrated by the agency's pace.
“They indicated that we'll start working on it right away. It could take a year,” the president said. “I said what do you mean a year? We have to have it tonight.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/29/fda-emergency-authorization-anti-malaria-drug-155095
Result:
FDA authorizes widespread use chloroquine to treat coronavirus https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/30/coronavirus-drugs-hydroxychloroquin-chloroquine/
Well, it is great that Ford & GM are doing this, but even if they started right this second, I am hoping that in 100 days, we won’t be needing as many ventilators, or somebody else will have provided the needed quantity by then.
I would imagine it would take them a while to retool their manufacturing to make these. I hope that is the case & not that they are just dragging their feet or some other reason. Maybe the Ford & GM vents can be used to restock for the next urgent need or to help other countries as necessary.
350,000,000 went to refugee resettlement? WTF?
This decontamination of #N95 masks is happening today in one of our Battelle #CCDS Critical Care Decontamination Systems#ItCanBeDone #BattelleCCDS #inthistogether #flattenthecurve #PPE
Bureaucrats don’t know the meaning of emergency.
GM = GE
PBS Reporter Gleefully Says Attacking Trump Must Be a ‘Team Sport’ for the Media
Published 9 hours ago on March 31, 2020 By Warner Todd Huston
FTA
Proving the massive bias in the media, PBS “reporter” Yamiche Alcindor was heard happily exclaiming that the role of the press is to be Trump’s enemy.
Speaking to left-winger Ali Velshi on MSNBC on Sunday, Alcindor was heard crowing that attacking Trump is a “team sport” for the media. And she insisted that the whole of the press corps must align to the attack and must “have each other’s back” in opposition to Trump.
Alcindor was speaking about an example of the media’s ignorant treatment of the president during another contentious press conference on Sunday. Alcindor was whining that she didn’t get enough attention during the conference.
“I have to say thank you to Jeremy of CNN for giving me the opportunity to ask my second question. We know now that covering President Trump sometimes is like a team sport. We have to have each other’s back in the press corps and Jeremy had my back today,” Alcindor told the MSNBC host.
Hi Gran, stay safe.
Here’s a different story
General Motors is quickly moving to repurpose parts of two U.S. automotive factories to manufacture health-care supplies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
GM’s efforts, which have received the ire and, more recently, praise of President Donald Trump, include manufacturing FDA-cleared Level 1 surgical masks at a manufacturing facility in Warren, Michigan, and Ventec VOCSN critical care ventilators at a components plant in Kokomo, Indiana
How are you feeling now ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLV1i7IJJH4
LIVE: Trump Coronavirus Press Briefing with Taskforce from the White house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbEyfl3vpg
Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing
Watching now, thank you.
Didn’t we taxpayers just give million to PBS?
Thanks.
Actually got it to come in today on TV
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove.
My Pillow is now making highly absorbent pillows so you can cry yourself to sleep after watching this press conference.— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) March 30, 2020
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