Posted on 04/14/2020 2:10:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump on Tuesday announced a new public-private partnership aimed at allowing hospitals to lend unused ventilators to areas that need them to treat patients who have contracted the novel coronavirus.
Trump announced the new initiative, which he called the “Dynamic Ventilator Reserve,” during a meeting with healthcare executives at the White House Tuesday afternoon. He said there were 60,000 unused ventilators in hospitals across the country and that the new program would help get the critical devices to areas that need them.
“Hospitals throughout the country currently have 60,000 unused ventilators,” Trump said at the start of the meeting. “Through this initiative, your hospitals are committing to lend unused surplus ventilators to other hospitals if they have an immediate need, and you’ve been doing that. We appreciate it.”
Trump said that the initiative would be supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Health and Human Services. He said that, in the event there is a large lending need for more ventilators, the federal government “will make sure that you get them.”
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new initiative for hospitals to lend unused ventilators to areas of need”
How about a new initiative for re-opening businesses. Is there no one there that considers it a priority?
Most French people go on vacation every August.
Most businesses in France stayed closed that month.
Give people the Malaria cocktail....kill the damn thing...and you won’t need so many ventilators.
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