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."
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"Well, of course not, or we wouldn't be asking for a supplemental to seek more money," Azar said.
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He should have been reading the FR coronavirus threads a month ago.
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.
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.
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?
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!
Rest well, Face.
Good chatting with you.
- gr
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.
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There is no excuse for this. There should be stockpiles of things like this.
And its criminal that we rely on China and India for so much of our medicine.
Hopefully president Trump will do something about it. He might have brought it up while in India.
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