Posted on 03/27/2020 1:35:46 PM PDT by Hojczyk
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged Friday the state did have a stockpile of unused ventilators, despite his complaints the federal government was not sending enough.
Cuomo responded to a comment from President Donald Trump on Twitter that there were thousands of ventilators in New York not being used.
“Yes, they’re in a stockpile because that’s where they are supposed to be, because we don’t need them yet,” Cuomo said. “We need them for the apex, the apex isn’t here, so we’re gathering them in a stockpile.”
Cuomo’s comments demonstrate there is not an immediate shortage in ventilators in the city, despite alarming reports.
“We don’t need them today, because we’re not at capacity today, that’s why they’re not deployed because they’re not needed,” Cuomo said.
The governor has repeatedly complained that the federal government is not sending enough ventilators to New York.
On Tuesday, Pence said that the federal government had sent 2,000 ventilators to New York and an additional 2,000 more on Wednesday.
But on Friday, Cuomo explained expert projections showed he would need up to 140,000 beds and 40,000 ventilators.
“I don’t operate here on opinion, I operate on facts and on data and on numbers and on projections,” he said.
In an interview on Fox News on Thursday night, Trump appeared skeptical that New York would need 40,000 ventilators.
“I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” he said.
The topic of ventilators appeared to be on the president’s mind for most of Friday, as cable news repeatedly focused on a “shortage” and suggested that the president do more by invoking the Defense Production Act.
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FR is now, sadly, very sadly, loaded down with posters who post about many topic that they neither know anything at all about, nor understand at all. Some uneducated person claimed that Andy is Chris’ YOUNGER brother! They should have taken the time to look Andy up, before posting, but noooooo...that’s far too much trouble and brother for the “know-it-alls” to do.
Early and forced pulmonary toileting before the vent stage is reached. Large dose mucolytics and expectorants to break up phlegm. Move and cough or lay still and die.
They may have to bring back “temporarily” breathing treatments that are iodine based(yes they can screw with your thyroids but we have better meds to treat that now). They cut thru phlegm better than anything and the iodine is bacteriacidal and virucidal.
I saw that! Amazing. No self awareness just blah blah blah.
Thanks for the sympathy.
That works for New Yorkers. He’s hoarding.
Au contraire, mon ami.
Here in Ohio DeWine and Acton say it is coming May 1 - 15.. They’ve seen the models!!
6 - 8 - 10,000 hospitalizations per day is coming! We’ll be overwhelmed they say ! No reopening of Ohio til ar least June 1
God have mercy on their souls
No,no,no. The “Progressives” in Congress let this one slide because Rescue pkg 3 & 4 are coming up. They won’t miss an opportunity to take advantage of a crisis.
Yes, it’s been amazingly awful!
30,000 will be brain dead vegetables because he put the housekeeping staff in charge of watching them.
the models! the models! LOL they’re all wrong dude
He might do just this ... :(
Please go concern troll somewhere else.
Preaching to the choir.
What are all the missteps and what is Trump directly responsible for?
Planet of the Apex.
Welcome... :)
Does N.Y. have the government they deserve? Sixteen thousand ventilators in balance against 700 Million for a Solar factory in Buffalo back in 2015. Lost that money to a bad Green Energy investment.
New movie in the mill...”War of the Planet of the Apex”....
Lol. And there’s no climax to it!
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