The first alarms sounded in early January that the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China would ignite a global pandemic.
On Feb. 24, the White House sent Congress an initial $2.5 billionto address the coronavirus outbreak. The next day, federal health experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the virus was spreading quickly in the U.S. and predicted that disruptions to daily life could be “severe.”
At the start of the crisis, an HHS spokeswoman said the Strategic National Stockpile had about 13 million N95 respirator masks. That’s just a small fraction of what hospitals need to protect their workers.Federal contracting records show that HHS placed a $4.8 million order March 12 for N95 masks from 3M, the largest U.S.-based manufacturer, which had ramped up production weeks earlier in response to the pandemic.
HHS declined last week to say how many N95 masks it has on hand. But as of March 31, the White House said more than 11.6 million had been distributed to state and local governments from the national stockpile — about 90% of what was available at the start of the year.The White House said March 31 that it had already distributed nearly half the breathing machines in the stockpile, which at the beginning of March were 16,660. An additional 2,425 were out for maintenance.
It wasn’t until March 27 that Trump finally said he would use that power to order General Motors to begin manufacturing ventilators — work the companyCuomo predicted on Friday that New York would run out within days. With the death rate surging, the governor vowed toMeanwhile, federal health authorities are lowering standards.
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