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Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg News: Federal stockpile of N95 masks was depleted under Obama and never restocked
washington examiner ^ | 3/23/2020 | EMMA COLTON

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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2009; depleted; facemasks; masks; maskshortage; n95; n95masks; obama; socializedmedicine; stockpile; supplies
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To: P.O.E.

Fundamentally transforming America I think it was called.


61 posted on 03/23/2020 4:13:59 PM PDT by DeplorableGirl
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To: polymuser

Bottom line is...government can’t do ANYTHING worth Jack shit. And that goes for both parties.


62 posted on 03/23/2020 4:18:28 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: bitt

That miserable bastard....
This another black mark on his ledger.


63 posted on 03/23/2020 4:27:24 PM PDT by ptsal ( Bust the NVIA)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Those pigs just flew past my kitchen window!!BOL!


64 posted on 03/23/2020 4:54:02 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ((FearRepublic.com - keeping the media panic narrative going 24/7 to finally bring down Trump)!!!!)
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To: bitt
Almost like it was done on purpose.

🧐


65 posted on 03/23/2020 4:55:17 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: rintintin
Probably everyone assumed it had been done and no one bothered to give it a second thought. Until now.
66 posted on 03/23/2020 5:28:16 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered tha)
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To: rintintin
My guess is that they were oh so busy having very important conferences & seminars in exotic places and 5 star resorts, where all that was discussed and planned was where to hold the next one in 2 months time!

And all this luxurious lifestyle was planned and paid for at the US taxpayers expense.

67 posted on 03/23/2020 5:39:36 PM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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To: bitt

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”


68 posted on 03/23/2020 8:06:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: bitt

FUBO


69 posted on 03/23/2020 9:24:06 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: CurlyDave

Do not take this the wrong way, but blaming Obama after 3 years of Trump is pretty lame.


It is and it isn’t. There are a lot of cogs, and this is one that really only gets touched when it is active - so it should have been resupplied at the end of use.

You’re right however, that the CDC should have been keeping tabs on it and continuing to submit the requests.


70 posted on 03/24/2020 6:16:39 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: bitt

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


71 posted on 03/24/2020 6:19:08 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: bert
"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."

72 posted on 03/24/2020 8:35:34 AM PDT by prophetic (Trump is today's DANIEL. Shut the mouth of lions Lord, let his enemies be the Cat Food instead.)
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To: ryderann

I have a question too: Why is no one giving President Bush (43) proper credit for doing something RIGHT in establishing the stockpile?


73 posted on 03/24/2020 6:20:56 PM PDT by mbj
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To: bert

LOL!!!


74 posted on 03/24/2020 6:26:32 PM PDT by mbj
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To: bitt

Can anyone find the links to the original LA Times and Bloomberg articles?


75 posted on 03/27/2020 11:07:44 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: bitt

Can anyone find the links to the original LA Times and Bloomberg articles?


76 posted on 03/27/2020 11:07:44 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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