“Yes, they’re in a stockpile because that’s where they are supposed to be, because we don’t need them yet,” Cuomo said. “We need them for the apex, the apex isn’t here, so we’re gathering them in a stockpile.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” President Trump said that he believes New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) is asking for equipment, like ventilators, that the state won’t need. Trump said, “[T]hey say, like Governor Cuomo, and
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) repeatedly criticized President Trump’s response to the coronavirus and the White House’s broader political strategy in the months prior to praising the president’s approach to the outbreak.
Dyson has received an order from the UK’s government to produce 10,000 ventilators to support the National Health Service’s effort to heal coronavirus patients and will donate an additional 5,000 to help the fight against the global pandemic.
A team of researchers at MIT announced this week that it will publish an open-source design for a low-cost ventilator that could potentially save lives during the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The ventilators designed by the “MIT Emergency Ventilator Project” will cost just $100 as opposed to up to $50,000 for typical hospital ventilators.
A senior scientist from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the decision to lock down the UK and efforts to increase capacity at intensive care units means that the NHS may be able to cope with the worst part of the pandemic.
Democrat New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scrambling to get 30,000 ventilators from the Trump administration, keeping in mind that the peak of the coronavirus could hit New York in 14 days.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated in a recent tweet that he has shipped 1,225 ventilators from China to medical facilities in the United States.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom confirmed Saturday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla have repurposed their manufacturing processes to produce ventilators, much-needed in the fight against the coronavirus outbreak.
The federal government is using emergency laws to buy more bedside breathing ventilators to treat the rising inflow of victims from China’s Wuhan virus.
President Trump could use his national emergency powers to address the pressing problem of an insufficient number of ventilators available to address the needs of hospitals to care for severely ill patients under a worst case Coronavirus pandemic situation.
President Donald Trump urged governors to build up their own supply of the bedside ventilators which are needed to keep victims alive as the Chinese-originating epidemic floods their lungs, the New York Times reported.
Government advisers and officials believe they will need up to 500,000 ventilators to help many elderly Americans survive the Wuhan virus, a source has told Breitbart News.
American companies that manufacture ventilators are not yet ramping up production in anticipation of an influx of coronavirus patients — at least, not yet — but several told Breitbart News on Friday that they could do so quickly.
