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US short on coronavirus facemasks, ventilators: HHS secretary
Fox Business ^ | Feb 25, 2020 | Evie Fordham

Posted on 02/25/2020 9:25:59 AM PST by 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."

CORONAVIRUS PROMPTS FDA TO DETAIL SCREENING OF CHINESE-MADE PRODUCTS

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

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; chinaviruspreppers; chinavirusus; coronavirus; covid19; masks; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; prepper; preppers
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To: DannyTN

He should have been reading the FR coronavirus threads a month ago.


61 posted on 02/25/2020 12:17:50 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

He should have. He would have known we didn’t have enough. He would have known supply lines from China needed to be replaced ASAP.


62 posted on 02/25/2020 12:23:31 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

If this is made worse here because we outsourced all our medical supplies to China...there need to be show trials of free traitors when it’s over.


63 posted on 02/25/2020 12:24:07 PM PST by Black Agnes
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To: RomanSoldier19

I don’t think I’d want to use a china-made N95 mask right now.

What better way to spread sickness than to inoculate safety equipment?

Smallpox blankets anyone?


64 posted on 02/25/2020 12:24:54 PM PST by Augie
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To: glock rocks

Oh, great!! Thanks! I’ll research tomorrow because it’s my turn to sleep. Stamina and all that. Deserts me frequently! I’ll hang onto that URL and see what else I can find! The price isn’t too bad, either! Thanks again!


65 posted on 02/25/2020 12:43:10 PM PST by Monkey Face (Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons. ~~ FB ~~)
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To: Monkey Face

Rest well, Face.

Good chatting with you.

- gr


66 posted on 02/25/2020 1:06:28 PM PST by glock rocks (orange man bad-ass)
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To: DannyTN
Central AR report since I'm off today, I spent 3 hours running around town getting ready for a cub scout camp out next month. Anyways I went to Lowes, Home Depot, Drug Emporium, Walgreens, Walmart and Sams. Only Lowes had N95 mask (about 12 of them). It was quite depressing.

HOWEVER Paint stores and local mom and pop hardware stores did have a few...not much, but a few. All 3M brand.

HOme Depot and Lowes both had the P100 full face respirators for 30 or so dollars. Dunno if that is better than an N95 but they had them as well as the pink filters.

67 posted on 02/25/2020 3:19:31 PM PST by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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68 posted on 02/25/2020 3:21:08 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: DannyTN

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69 posted on 02/25/2020 4:11:15 PM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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To: 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.


It is criminal...People have tried to blow the whistle on this national security issue in the Bush and Obama regimes...Yet no one is held accountable...


70 posted on 02/25/2020 4:27:55 PM PST by Freedom56v2
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To: Freedom56v2

Hopefully president Trump will do something about it. He might have brought it up while in India.


71 posted on 02/25/2020 5:25:57 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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