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RandySF

(59,079 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2020, 08:42 PM Mar 2020

Trump Blames Hospitals for Lack of Masks and Ventilators

President Trump has been focused on shifting blame for whatever becomes of the coronavirus outbreak. And on Sunday, he set about blaming hospitals and states for the well-established shortages of equipment to deal with the situation.

During the daily White House coronavirus briefing in the Rose Garden, Trump suggested that hospitals had squandered or done worse with masks and were “hoarding” ventilators, and that states were requesting equipment despite not needing them.

Trump’s boldest claim was about masks. He noted the current demand wasn’t commensurate with what hospitals usually use and suggested masks were “going out the back door.”

“It’s a New York hospital, very — it’s packed all the time,” he said. “How do you go from 10 to 20 [thousand masks per week] to 300,000? Ten [thousand] to 20,000 masks, to 300,000 — even though this is different? Something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Are they going out the back door?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/29/trump-bizarrely-blames-hospitals-mask-ventilator-shortages/

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Trump Blames Hospitals for Lack of Masks and Ventilators (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2020 OP

He is hoarding them, to sell to red states when they need them hoping blue state Eliot Rosewater Mar 2020 #1

"Something is going on..." pat_k Mar 2020 #2

Sure. Piss off the medical staff. Great idea. underpants Mar 2020 #3

He's the leader of the folks who blamed the Sandy Hook kids for getting shot... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #4

Some crooks think everyone else is crooked, too. Harker Mar 2020 #5

This made my blood boil Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)

1. He is hoarding them, to sell to red states when they need them hoping blue state

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 08:51 PM

Mar 2020

people will die.

Not one ounce of exaggeration in my comment.

As long as red state folks can pay for them both with money and votes, they will get them.

pat_k

(9,313 posts)

2. "Something is going on..."

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 08:51 PM

Mar 2020

Yeah. A pandemic you asshole.

N95 respirators aren't meant to be re-worn. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends physicians dispose of them after each patient encounter or when the respirator doesn't form an effective seal against the mouth and nose. {link}

A new one every patient encounter -- that's every patient with COVID-19-like symptoms who shows up. That's every room visited.

Of course demand would go up 10 to 20 times normal when they are seeing so many infected and potentially infected patients.

Unbelievable!!!!