Health care professionals from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Nurses Association (ANA) sent a joint letter to President Donald Trump on Saturday pleading for more medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the letter, the three organizations implored Trump to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to help with the “dwindling supplies” of respirators, surgical masks, and other necessary tools.
“America’s hospitals, health systems, physicians and nurses urge you to immediately use the DPA to increase the domestic production of medical supplies and equipment that hospitals, health systems, nurses and all front line providers so desperately need,” they wrote.
“Even with an infusion of supplies from the strategic stockpile and other federal resources, there will not be enough medical supplies, including ventilators, to respond to the projected COVID-19 outbreak,” the organizations wrote.
Trump has tried to brush off reports of supply shortages and insisted that he and his administration is doing a “tremendous job” with the coronavirus outbreak.
However, Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the disease experts on the White House Coronavirus Task Force, told reporters on Saturday that the shortages are, in fact, real.
The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Truth be told…Irresponsible+Incompetent+ IMPeetus Trump should have prepared for the pandemic since he was briefed last Jan & Feb.
BTW, Trump plays favorite with medical supplies with his new home state FL getting all the N95 mask they wanted…with those electoral votes in mind!
Update:
While medical personnel are running out of PPE like masks…ICE deportation team is asking for 45k masks
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https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1241463332223287297
Why not just pretend that he has already told them to do that, provide him with the order, and have him sign it? They could come in and say “Remember, people have been calling all day praising you for doing this” and he would sign it in a heartbeat. Someone there must realize how serious this is.
This was a decision of his that I just didn’t “get”. Once he finally got talked into reluctantly admitting that this thing was real, I don’t understand his rationale for not making a decision.
Unless - with Trump it is always “unless” - he has been trying to blackmail someone (Pelosi?) into giving him something that benefits him and his reelection. In his book, it is clear that no price is too much for the citizens of the country to pay for his personal welfare, after all.
He should have done that a month ago. But frankly, I expected nothing less from him than the nothing that he did.
OT It’s official: Toadglans is the Covidiot in Chief.
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