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https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/politics/pentagon-ventilators/index.html
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Pentagon says it still hasn't sent ventilators because it hasn't been told where to send them
In order to ship the badly needed equipment, the Defense Department has to be given a location to send them by civilian authorities who have to decide where the items are most needed.
"There was discussion with HHS on where to send them. And then they said hey wait, we're trying to take a look at the demand that's required, and so we were asked to just wait while there was just some sorting through on that. And I won't speak on behalf of them, but we were in a position to provide 2,000," said Lt. General Giovanni Tuck.
Tuck said he had no details on the HHS decisions, but added that "we haven't provided any, because as of last night, we were asked to just hold on the ones that we have, and then we will push them when they're ready for them."
He emphasized there are 1,000 ventilators fully ready to be shipped as soon as the Pentagon gets a destination of where to send them. The other 1,000 can also be assembled and shipped within days of getting the order he indicated.
The uncertainty comes as health experts continue to say there is a serious need for more respirators and ventilators to deal with the surge of coronavirus patients at hospitals across the country. Medical professionals have also asked for help related to testing for the virus but several days after Pentagon officials offered to assist in this area, it remains unclear if they have begun to do so.
Civilian Pentagon officials had repeatedly said they are making ventilators and five million N-95 respirator masks available. So far only 1.5 million masks have been shipped by the Pentagon. Another 500,000 are to be shipped within days.
But HHS and FEMA have given DoD no indication of when or where they precisely want the other three million items to go.
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Additionally, it remains unclear if the Pentagon has tested any civilian patients for the virus more than two weeks after Esper said it had offered to do so.
"We are not maxing our capacity in our labs around the world," Joint Staff Surgeon Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs said at a Pentagon press conference last week, adding that the Defense Department is currently operating 16 labs capable of conducting the test.
US military is not conducting civilian coronavirus tests despite offering to more than a week ago
"We have not received an RFA, a request for assistance, from HHS that I'm aware of," he said. "But we do have capacity in some of our labs. We've identified that to HHS."
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)before the Migraines set in . . . .
underpants
(182,879 posts)and no one at FEMA bothered to call HHS for some reason.
This is worse than a disaster. Im really freaked out about whats about to happen.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)SunSeeker
(51,698 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)I don't know how so many intelligent people went along with this BS. Impeachment is political, this is our health! They made it political, not us. We must never, ever let them get away with this and never let Americans forget who they listened to and who they didn't at this time in our history.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)After all Putin is trying to build Russia up into being a global super power again but that would be difficult to do with the US standing in his way so he had to groom assets in the US.
So that is why we have people like Trump and Moscow Mitch in office.
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)(along with Mitch and Barr) is to destroy America and rebuild it in the GOP image. Bankrupting and killing all who stand in their way seems to be their shared strategy.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)captain queeg
(10,242 posts)Or more often no one there are so many positions with acting heads
underpants
(182,879 posts)Their first visit to the White House. After a tour walkthrough Jared was speaking with the Chief of Staff or someone close to that level. Jared asked, So how many of those people have to be replaced? The article stated the answer as matter of fact but I read some jaw drop in it. The answer was (obviously) All of them. Everyone in there is a political appointee or hire.
That was when I really understood how bad this could get.
crickets
(25,983 posts)la-trucker
(283 posts)than doing their jobs.
It is sickening. Come on people, there are people dying and doctors/nurses/lab techs at risk.
Initech
(100,102 posts)The people who allowed this to happen need to answer for their crimes and the entire world needs to know who is to be held responsible for this atrocity.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)who is a professor at USC on her show tonight. The public needs to understand that it is possible to manage distribution chains. It's just that no one in the WH knows what they are doing. None of them have the resumès for their jobs.
underpants
(182,879 posts)So you figure out whos got what. You figure whos shipping to who. Then you say - everyones price is ___. Figure out pricing changes later.
MOVE! NOW!
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)crimes of predation turned out to be completely horrible manager when it comes to taking care of people?
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Hiding the # and basic info of dead people as their re-election looms, this is their play?
These monsters make the devil blush?
I wish them drawn and quartered without any prep.
Faces of Death faked it really well for back in the day, it made a lasting impression?
NBachers
(17,136 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)HHS is not to advance and administer Health and Human Services. It's to do away with it.
ffr
(22,671 posts)They're really owning us now. Boy, oh boy!
People need to be held accountable for this carnage.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)She does a great job on difficult/complex issues