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flamingdem

(39,314 posts) Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:40 PM Mar 2020

This is what NYC needs by early April:

The Chair of New York City Council health committee was just on msnbc and listed their needs starting with ventilators. Looks like Cuomo is not aware since I believe he said there are enough ventilators. They need a national coordinator!

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This is what NYC needs by early April: (Original Post) flamingdem Mar 2020 OP

Gov. Cuomo NEVER said there are enough ventilators. lapucelle Mar 2020 #1

I just caught the part where he said they have ventilators stockpiled in NY flamingdem Mar 2020 #2

Perhaps he was referring to the feds having ventilators in their possession, physically in NY. RockRaven Mar 2020 #4

i heard him say they are prepared for the immediate future. barbtries Mar 2020 #5

March 23rd - Gov. Cuomo says New York needs ventilators now, help from GM and Ford 'does us no good' Make7 Mar 2020 #3

lapucelle

(18,303 posts)

1. Gov. Cuomo NEVER said there are enough ventilators.

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:44 PM

Mar 2020

He calls out the dire need EVERY DAY.

flamingdem

(39,314 posts)

2. I just caught the part where he said they have ventilators stockpiled in NY

Reply to lapucelle (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:46 PM

Mar 2020

so I wondered why Levine is urgently requesting them - ?

I think Cuomo is doing an excellent job but clearly it's too much to manage and we need national management big time for resources.

Of course Trump is incapable of doing what is needed.

RockRaven

(14,984 posts)

4. Perhaps he was referring to the feds having ventilators in their possession, physically in NY.

Reply to flamingdem (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:50 PM

Mar 2020

That would comport with both the statement that ventilators are stockpiled in NY and NY needing ventilators from the feds. If Cuomo used the pronoun "we" it could be referring to America, not NY State.

barbtries

(28,810 posts)

5. i heard him say they are prepared for the immediate future.

Reply to flamingdem (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:59 PM

Mar 2020

he stressed "immediate" as in they need more.

Make7

(8,543 posts)

3. March 23rd - Gov. Cuomo says New York needs ventilators now, help from GM and Ford 'does us no good'

Reply to flamingdem (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 01:47 PM

Mar 2020

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He called on President Donald Trump to use the Defense Production Act to secure more medical equipment and asked Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar to release the 20,000 ventilators in the U.S. stockpile to New York.

"How can you be in a situation where you have New Yorkers possibly dying because they can't get a ventilator, but a federal agency is saying, 'I'm going to leave the ventilators in the stockpile,'" Cuomo said. "I mean, have we really come to that point?"

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is sending the state 400 ventilators, Cuomo said.

"Four hundred ventilators? I need 30,000 ventilators. You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators?" Cuomo said.

"This is a critical and desperate need for ventilators," he said, adding that the state is experimenting with using one ventilator split between two patients. "We don't have any other options. There's no other way for us to get these ventilators. We've tried everything else."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/gov-cuomo-says-new-york-needs-ventilators-now-help-from-gm-ford-does-us-no-good.html

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