Posted on 09/18/2020 6:46:58 PM PDT by Libloather
A $90 million state contract with a South Bay company that started manufacturing N95 masks during the coronavirus pandemic is in jeopardy after the company’s respirators failed to pass muster with federal inspectors.
California officials had distributed 7.2 million N95 masks from Advoque, a Santa Clara company that normally makes in-store product displays, before the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health last week revoked the temporary certification it had previously granted the business. Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office of Emergency Services, said the state had another 3 million masks from the company on hand as of Sept. 8.
A copy of the state recall notice, posted online by the group California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, told recipients, “If you have current inventory of Advoque N95 masks … immediately cease use and distribution of this product.”
Neither the state nor Advoque disclosed why the masks’ certification was revoked.
A crush of demand for N95 masks, which experts say offer the most protection from the spread of COVID-19, has created a global shortage since the early days of the pandemic, putting California and other states in a desperate scramble to obtain millions of the masks for health care workers and other critical employees. The shortage was so great that many health care facilities and elder care homes asked their workers to conserve and reuse masks and other protective equipment.
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Put them out on the market as cheap rejects. People will buy them.
Let’s see the data.
Newscum is the most incompetent elected official I have ever heard of or seen. Everyone made fun of Dubya’....this guy makes Gray Davis and Schwaren****** look like prodigies.
I read somewhere that he is Pelosi’s nephew.
You want to see the science? Won’t happen?
Were these masks made by Chicoms in China or here in California?
I just checked because I had read that earlier, too. Not a nephew. . .there is a connection by marriage; however.
How do masks prevent the bacterium/viruses etc from the poop people live in in these Democratic run inner cities?
Yep
He is...governance style same..sense of entitlement same...incompetence same...he was mayor of s.f....s.f. Is in her congressional district..
S.f. is literally a s***hole. Guess why
You are correct. I heard he is a nephew...but it is more like this: his aunt was married to the brother in law of nancy pelosi(ron pelosi). So ron pelosi is his uncle in law. (According to wickedpedia.) Thanks for the correction.
Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law was Gavin Newsom’s uncle.
See number 8 and number 12 for “nephew” status of Newsom.
Advoque had those inferior masks made for them in China ... Newsome KNEW that when he gave Advoque the $90 million ...
Let’s see the $1.4 billion that gov Newsom stole supposedly to have a chinese BUS company make masks. 200 million a month he said back in April. So far none have shown up.
He’s her nephew-in-law.
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