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Trump orders General Motors to make ventilators under Defense Production Act
CNBC ^ | Michael Wayland | 3/27/20

Posted on 03/27/2020 5:11:55 PM PDT by Meatspace

President Donald Trump has ordered General Motors to make ventilators under the Defense Production Act hours after criticizing the company for not acting quickly enough to produce the devices amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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To: voicereason

“I wonder if there will “Monday” ventilators? Personally, they are one of last companies I’d want building ventilators. Or any union facility for that matter.”

They are partnering with Ventec, a well known qualified medical ventilator manufacturer.

https://www.venteclife.com/


21 posted on 03/27/2020 5:40:13 PM PDT by ltc8k6 ( .)
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To: Meatspace

There is ZERO evidence that we have a shortage of ventilators.

Seasonal influenza - at its peak in January and February - had NO shortage of ventilators.

We have had a minimum of 400,000 hospitalizations for influenza in the last 5.5 months.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are no where near that number.

If COVID-19 sends 20% of victims to the hospital - and it does not - that would be 20,000 hospitalizations in the last nine weeks for COVID-19.

Trump’s order for ventilators is based on a deranged prediction that we will have hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths.


22 posted on 03/27/2020 5:42:21 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Berlin_Freeper

She dead, I suppose. See how I answer your question? Can you answer a question?

The question was why don’t you?


23 posted on 03/27/2020 5:43:20 PM PDT by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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To: Meatspace

This order may have been necessary — I remain unconvinced. Voluntary participation is far better. Volunteer corporations want to excel; conscripted corporations just want to avoid trouble. No command & control economy has come anywhere close to the success of free enterprise economies, in the long term. Trump’s ‘challenge’ approach is better, by far.

There can be little doubt that politics were a big factor. The MSM and other leftists hounding Trump to invoke the DPA, you’d think that his invoking it would shut them up.


24 posted on 03/27/2020 5:47:07 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Meatspace

Considerable, and rapid work is underway by entrepreneurs to turn CPAP machines into ventilators. Some medical facilities have been successful using a single ventilator for more than one patient, something not considered possible. Anethesia machines are also being employed as ventilators.

American ingenuity at work, not government bureaucrats.


25 posted on 03/27/2020 5:47:18 PM PDT by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Wow, come down off the ledge. Too much Schnapps, account highjacked?


26 posted on 03/27/2020 5:48:50 PM PDT by DAC21 ( and Naflet had demint)
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To: Mr Fuji

Trump had to put Mary Barra over his knee.


27 posted on 03/27/2020 5:48:50 PM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: ltc8k6

Gotch! The devil is in the details and at this point I’m only half-hearted in listening as I’m getting tired of this.


28 posted on 03/27/2020 5:54:24 PM PDT by Mr Fuji
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To: equaviator

I guess she has to be shown who’s the boss.


29 posted on 03/27/2020 5:55:13 PM PDT by Mr Fuji
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To: zeestephen

For fifteen years we have had threads about avian flu risk and such that can prompt a cytokine blast similar to Spanish Infuenza and corona. All that time the numbers of ventilators has always been viewed as where modern medicine will fall short. The time-on-ventalator is triple that for flu with the current Corona.


30 posted on 03/27/2020 6:18:01 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

The voluntary aspect was breached by GM coming back with a much lower production number and higher cost.

Promised 40,000. Then 6,000 and wants $1 Billion.

He had the hammer and he decided to use it.


31 posted on 03/27/2020 6:22:47 PM PDT by PsyCon
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To: zeestephen
We have had a minimum of 400,000 hospitalizations for influenza in the last 5.5 months.

And presumably you have some data establishing the percentage of influenza patients who need ventilators, and how long they are on the ventilator before case resolution. Would you be so kind as to share a link with us?

32 posted on 03/27/2020 6:23:06 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Bye.


33 posted on 03/27/2020 6:28:09 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
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To: PsyCon

GM wanted to price gouge. Trump was having none of that.


34 posted on 03/27/2020 6:37:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: bigbob

If I recall correctly, Obama got rid of the GM CEO and replaced him with someone who thought more like him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gm-ceo-resigns-at-obamas-behest/


35 posted on 03/27/2020 8:06:48 PM PDT by excalibur21
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To: zeestephen
We have had a minimum of 400,000 hospitalizations for influenza in the last 5.5 months.

Stop the disinformation campaign...

CDC estimated that an average of 114,000 people were hospitalized as a result of influenza-associated infections each year

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm

36 posted on 03/27/2020 8:46:10 PM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: PsyCon

We don’t have the whole picture yet (if ever). Agreed: ‘war’ profiteering is bad & it’s important to act. There can also be no doubt that Trump will not continue these measures for a long time. However, a sizable fraction of the Democrat party would support such command & control measures long term. That should give you pause.


37 posted on 03/27/2020 9:15:02 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Yo, silly cow. Quarantine your your mad brain.


38 posted on 03/27/2020 9:35:16 PM PDT by granada
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To: granada

General Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!! FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!! @GeneralMotors @Ford— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2020


39 posted on 03/27/2020 9:40:16 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: politicket

Re: “Stop the disinformation campaign...CDC estimated that an average of 114,000 people were hospitalized as a result of influenza-associated infections each year”

LOL!

You have a serious reading comprehension problem.

114,000 is based on “records from 1970-1995.”

Also, your CDC link has not been updated for 17 months.

My CDC link was updated yesterday.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

400,000 - 730,000 influenza hospitalizations from 01 October 2019 to 21 March 2020.


40 posted on 03/28/2020 1:40:57 AM PDT by zeestephen
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