Posted on 03/31/2020 5:38:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A planeload of desperately needed medical supplies arrived in New York from China on Sunday, the first in a series of flights over the next 30 days organized by the White House to help fight the coronavirus, a White House official said.
A commercial carrier landed at John F. Kennedy airport carrying gloves, gowns and masks for distribution in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, three hard-hit states battling to care for a crush of coronavirus patients.
The airlift is a product of a team led by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, which formed “Project Airbridge,” a partnership between large U.S. healthcare distributors such as McKesson Corp, Cardinal, Owens & Minor, Medline and Henry Schein Inc, and the federal government.
Representatives of those companies were to attend a White House meeting later on Sunday with President Donald Trump to discuss the effort, the official said.
The goal is to expedite the arrival of critical medical supplies purchased by the companies over the next 30 days, using planes instead of ships to reduce the shipping time.
“At President Trump’s direction we formed an unprecedented public-private partnership to ensure that massive amounts of masks, gear and other PPE will be brought to the United States immediately to better equip our health care workers on the front lines and to better serve the American people,” Kushner said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
The flight from Shanghai, China, was the first of about 20 flights to arrive between now and early April, the official said. Additional flights will carry similar gear from China, Malaysia and Vietnam, the official said.
Have mercy on us, oh LORD.
I would not trust anything from China, especially now.
They have sent defective supplies and used masks to various places this year.
“I would not trust anything from China, especially now”.
That’s right. The same with all the medicine we get from them.
Trojan horse?
This would give me less than zero confidence if I was a COVID-19 patient right now.
Just be sure to irradiate each shipment before distribufion to the medical field.
I would not trust anything coming from China at this point. They have already sent defective test kits to Italy and the Czech Republic.
what could go wrong !!!!!!!!!!sarc
There are multiple reports of China shipping defective stuff during this time to countries requesting & ordering medical supplies.
“Just be sure to irradiate each shipment before distribufion to the medical field.”
That’s a good start but there’s the issue of faulty masks, malfunctioning ventilators, etc. But I guess if we’re that desperate and it’s a question of trying their stuff or trying nothing...? Rock, meet hard place.
Reuters does a really good job of being vague about the source of these supplies. I wonder if these are commercial supplies, not Chinese government donated supplies?
BURN IT!
BURN IT ALL....
It’s probably all contaminated.
I like Trump. Jared,not so much.
Would not touch any of it with a 100 ft pole.
From China, straight to the landfill.
“arrived in New York from China”
WTF?
We don’t make ANY of this shiite?
The Globalists of the last 40 effin years need to be swinging from ropes.
But The Sheeple will just take their 1,200 pieces of paper, take their shoes off and get in line.
“Countries Rush to Dump ‘Defective’ Chinese COVID-19 Tests”
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