[11th_VA]

Interesting - homophobia is trying to blame Trump ... ...

Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York, is chairwoman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths

[11th_VA]

Homophobia!?!?!?! - stupid spell check, should be Cuomo

[Reno89519]

Everyone wants the feds to foot the bill so they don’t spend money to prepare.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Well, at least they studied the problem.

[1Old Pro]

It’s a little late. Several years ago, after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road. They could have chosen to buy more ventilators to back up the supplies hospitals maintain. Instead, the health commissioner, Howard Zucker, assembled a task force for rationing the ventilators they already had.

This needs to be thrown right in Cuomo's face.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Trump just crammed this down his piehole during his live Fox News town hall.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

In 2015, that task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. ­Patients assigned a red code will have highest access, and other ­patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst), ­depending on a “triage officer’s” decision. In truth, a death officer. Let’s not sugar-coat it. It won’t be up to your own doctor. In 2015, the state could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece, or a total of $576 million. It’s a lot of money, but in hindsight, spending half a percent of the budget to prepare for pandemic was the right thing to do.

Cuomo spends $500 million on illegals health care

DeBlasio's wife can't account for a missing $850 million

(and those are just 2 of many examples)

[hudsonohio]

Sorry folks but I disagree. Get the ventilators first. Place blame later. Don’t let people die because the federal government didn’t help the state recover from their past mistake.

This is a mistake on the President’s part and I say that as someone who desperately wants to see him re-elected

[Ken H]

Commissioner Oxiris Barbot
@NYCHealthCommr

Today our city is celebrating the #LunarNewYear parade in Chinatown, a beautiful cultural tradition with a rich history in our city. I want to remind everyone to enjoy the parade and not change any plans due to misinformation spreading about #coronavirus.

A Guide to Lunar New Year in NYC
Where to celebrate the holiday.
nycgo.com
9:10 AM · Feb 9, 2020·Hootsuite Inc.

https://twitter.com/NYCHealthCommr/status/1226508570646269954

[mumblypeg]

New York knew, had the money, & chose not to spend it.
Therefore, Trump’s fault.

[GOPJ]

Ahhh, truth is raising it's unwelcomed head...

[Captain Peter Blood]

Cuomo wants 30,000 Vents, well they can’t come out of thin air. By the time they get them crisis will be over, also have they got enough qualified people to run them if they did have them?

[RetiredScientist]

I suspect that NYC is not the only large city with this problem. Gov. Coumo’s proposed solution - having municipalities work together to lend expensive respirators out when neighbors have peak demand is not a bad idea. Gov Coumo was willing to lend out many of ours to other places who were in later peaks of this epidemic. Helping out one another during times if crisis builds rapport and a listening ear. President Roosevelt did just this with military hardware for our British Allies when he signed the Lend-Lease bill into law on March 11, 1941.

[Amendment10]

Freepers, noting that the first link refers to ventilator unit, the other link referring to a "key piece" of ventilator unit, please compare the following two links.

• "A hospital grade ventilator is a costly machine, running between $25,000 and $50,000 each."

• Italians 3D-print key ventilator piece for just $1 to help battle coronavirus — so medical company threatens to sue them

[The Great RJ]

Cuomo’s emotional plea for 30,000 respirators is nuts in my opinion. Many people testing positive have few if any symptoms, most do not require hospitalization and not every hospitalized corona virus patient needs a respirator. My bet is that hundreds of respirators will be rushed to New York get lost in a bureaucratic shuffle and end up in some warehouse.

[donozark]

Had Cuomo not outlawed fracking in NY State they would have enough ventilators for every man, woman, and child in the world.

[ronnie raygun]

Sure like the diversity infected CDC they use tax payer money for things that do not benefit to populace

[DilJective]

manual ventilating is an option, too. It takes some training, but it is possible and NY has millions of people to partake in saving lives. I will definitely do it where I live, if they need me.

[SunkenCiv]

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