TED CRUZ is calling on Azar to use the Defense Production Act to immediately ramp up ventilator production. “Time is of the essence.” https://t.co/xbqg8cA4X9 pic.twitter.com/NRyz0Wj49r— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 20, 2020
TED CRUZ is calling on Azar to use the Defense Production Act to immediately ramp up ventilator production. “Time is of the essence.” https://t.co/xbqg8cA4X9 pic.twitter.com/NRyz0Wj49r— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) March 20, 2020
Can’t c-paps be used as ventilators?
Next time this happens we need to separate hospitals from virus care. We should probably do it now. Or next year. We should take over hotels. Since hotels will get fewer guests they should be taken over has quick hospital rooms. This has two affects. One, it makes the remaining hotels more profitable. And it is a good use of an underutilized valuable resource. China made hospitals because they have few hotels.
Also, America should create tariffs for products made in China that are valuable to the US. You don’t have to make everything here. But if too much of, lets say masks or medicine is made there, put a large tariff on it. You want products to be made in the US or dispersed around the world, not just in China or even Asia.
Stop the CDC from making their own kits or trying to control tests. Frankly the CDC should not be in charge of the epidemic at all. They should only monitor on it and report. Bureaucrats are control freaks. And even their private industry suppliers are not as good as vendors who never sell to the government.
Open web-sites and YouTube video conferences. And keep it very up to date with as much data as possible. Stop the unnecessary media filter.
It is a good thing that Cruz wrote that letter, otherwise, no one would have ever guessed that the country needs more ventilators, or that they are a critical piece of machinery, and that he, Ted Cruz, is concerned about it all.