Posted on 03/23/2020 2:33:28 PM PDT by bitt
The national shortage of N95 respirator masks can be traced back to 2009 after the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, when the Obama administration was advised to replenish a national stockpile but did not, according to reports from Bloomberg News and the Los Angeles Times.
The Trump administration is scrambling to replenish a stockpile of protective medical gear for healthcare workers and patients as the coronavirus sweeps across the nation. N95 respirator masks are one of the most needed medical supplies amid the outbreak.
The George W. Bush administration published the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza plan in 2005, which called on the federal government to distribute medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile governed by the Health and Human Services Department in the event of an outbreak.
In 2009, the H1N1 outbreak hit the United States, leading to 274,304 hospitalizations, 12,469 deaths, and a depletion of N95 respirator masks.
A federally backed task force and a safety equipment organization both recommended to the Obama administration that the stockpile be replenished with the 100 million masks used after the H1N1 outbreak.
Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Association, said that advice was never heeded.
“Our association is unaware of any major effort to restore the stockpile to cover that drawdown,” he said.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar reported last month that only 12 million N95 masks were available in the stockpile, “a tiny fraction of the 3.5 billion masks one of Azar’s deputies later testified the nation’s healthcare system would need,” the Los Angeles Times noted.
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Fundamentally transforming America I think it was called.
Bottom line is...government can’t do ANYTHING worth Jack shit. And that goes for both parties.
That miserable bastard....
This another black mark on his ledger.
Those pigs just flew past my kitchen window!!BOL!
And all this luxurious lifestyle was planned and paid for at the US taxpayers expense.
Obama: born in Hawaii or Kenya or Hell. Waged war on White America, the free enterprise America, hard working black working Americans and keeping others on the welfare check plantation as “voter bees”.
EVIL has a new face Quadrilogy - “Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer”
FUBO
Do not take this the wrong way, but blaming Obama after 3 years of Trump is pretty lame.
You’re right however, that the CDC should have been keeping tabs on it and continuing to submit the requests.
the word on the street is that the white masks were deemed to be racist and did not meet the standard of the racist Obama administration
I always say that RACIST people see inject RACE into Everything! Thus they are suffering from a sort of mental disease akin to OCD as their mental thinking is corrupted & twisted. Imho when one degenerates to such stages then all manner of what used to be Normal behaviour is not enough and anything else can happen.
See Also Romans 1:28 "Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done."
I have a question too: Why is no one giving President Bush (43) proper credit for doing something RIGHT in establishing the stockpile?
LOL!!!
Can anyone find the links to the original LA Times and Bloomberg articles?
Can anyone find the links to the original LA Times and Bloomberg articles?
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