rlw999 wrote:
There are always lots of mysteries with a novel new illness, and it will take years to understand COVID and how to best treat it, but "we need ventilators for a serious respiratory illness" wasn't a controversial first reaction.
I agree with you. That's why the Defense Production Act was invoked, and GM and Ford built ventilators, and yes, even NY received additional ventilators in early April, as they were being produced.
What's unfair is saying the Fed GOV didn't provide ventilators when asked, implying he was taking it out against blue states. Or that the Fed gov didn't do anything to address the fact that the need was there. The same week that NY admitted to having a stockpile, the Fed Gov delivered 2000 ventilators, with another 2000 in the pipeline for NY.
Mike