Trump wasted half a billion on 10,000 ventilators that won't arrive until September 2022

[Mainecat]

1 minute ago, Highmark said:

Obama admin made a shitry deal and its Trumps fault because he didn't  clean it up.  

So you never read the story?

[Highmark]

4 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

So you never read the story?

Yeah I actually posted before on Obama's failure to get them delivered.

See the thing your article conveniently omits is that the ventilators were actually on order since 2008 and companies of which the Obama administration allowed failure for 8 fucking years.

The mounting problem after nearly two decades of warnings, however, is not simply the product of a problem ignored. The government accepted bids from companies in 2008 planning to buy tens of thousands of additional ventilators for the stockpile after swine flu, avian flu, SARS, and MERS revealed the need. According to a New York Times report, the federal government contracted the small Japanese company Newport Medical Instruments to develop and produce inexpensive ventilators that the U.S. would purchase.

Years later, after prototypes were developed, Newport was bought out by Covidien in 2012, and the project ground to a halt. By 2014, Covidien wanted out of the contract, former federal officials told the Times, and the government agreed to cancel it. A year later, Covidien was purchased by Medtronic, which told the Times that the ventilators Newport was developing would not have been usable on newborns and would have fallen short of the government’s requirements.

The government entered into a new contract with Philips in 2014, and finally ordered 10,000 ventilators in December 2019, with delivery expected later this year

Edited August 3, 2020 by Highmark

[Angry ginger]

so not having stocks of ventilators in March bad.  Getting stocks of ventilators for future needs also bad.   

[teamgreen02]

Aren't doctors figuring out ventilators aren't the best course of action for covid patients unless it is a life or death situation?  The ventilator shortages were governors screaming for tens of thousands of ventilators they didn't yet need.  When is the last time you have heard of ventilator shortages?