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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Well, it looks like at least half of the population isn't buying it as his approval poll numbers are still good. People just don't trust the media any more.
The guy hordes and stockpiles ventilators and all the while complains that Trump is shorting him even though he received 8 thousand this week. Okay we get it....not!
This is why Fredo was not allowed to run any of the family businesses.....
you do know italy is lumping all the dead into the corona basket right? whether they died from it or not, they’re labeled as such
Ad to everything that in 2015 he was offered ventilators at a bargain price to replenish what was used up from the 2009 swine flu epidemic and he has the gall to blame Trump for his own lack of foresight. sheesh!
How is it viable? He claimed there were none, and the State was very short-handed. He's got a stockpile of them. When he had a chance to buy more ventilators in 2015, he chose not to, and instead set up a death panel to determine who would get to use the existing ventilators if a pandemic did occur. He's basically doing that now because he's held back on the truth as to the number of ventilators the State has, thereby forcing doctors to make health decisions based on his false statements. He's a lying sack of shit, plain and simple.
Most GOP voters have moved out and sadly, the vast majority of eligible voters in the state no longer bother to vote!
And yes, Andy and his brother and his late father are/were ALL SLEAZE and dithering imbeciles!!!
You need to get out of NYS. Most states in the country are relatively unscathed by this virus and by November the economy will be uppermost in their minds. Trump is the man America needs to be POTUS, and most voters would agree with that.
He’s been a vicious creep since his father’s campaign in the 70s.
There are all sorts of stories of NY hospitals having to put multiple patients on a single generator. Sounds like they may be needed there Andy
wonder what else cuomo is hoarding.
He’s in Ohio. What he knows about Cuomo you can fit in a thimble.
Duh. Cocaine. Have you seen the guy? When you know, you just know.
not sit in a warehouse.
= = =
They can take that refrigerator semi trailer full of corpses over to that warehouse.
Match them up there. The victims will not complain.
Government are the biggest hoarders of all.
And I'd post what Bob Grant used to say about Mario, but have NO idea how to spell in Italian. LOL
He wants free ventilators from Uncle Sugar so he can sell off the stockpile to other states or countries at inflated prices.
It’s coming, but its goong to be orders of magnitude smaller.
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Mario the Pius. We have midwesterners here pontificating on this sleaze. Is there nothing FReepers don’t know?
Cuomo’s explanation is viable
Why has he been hiding them?
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