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How Obama's failure to resupply respirators in federal stockpile created a 2020 crisis

Putting numbers to the mask shortage due to Obama-Biden decisions.
The Strategic National Stockpile, America's giant medical storage closet for a terrorist or biological crisis, once boasted more than 100 million respirator masks to protect doctors, nurses and other frontline health care workers in case of a contagion.

But when the COVID-19 pandemic started a few months ago, the supply had dwindled down to just 12 million fitted masks, known as N95 respirators, and 30 million surgical masks, a supply deemed to be less than 2 percent of what the nation would need for full-blown pandemic.

The tale of how such a critical supply lapsed, leading the Trump administration to scramble for 500 million new masks in the midst of pandemic, is one of government neglect and competing priorities that began in 2009.

Posted by Vortigern Smiter of the Faeries4396 2020-04-02 07:41|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Well, GW's 'National Stockpile' hasn't been sufficiently re-supplied in the last three years either. Perhaps the administration wasn't told.

Something tells me that some mid/high-level assets management folks in charge of this might be facing a question or two.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-04-02 11:16|| 2020-04-02 11:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Someone should ask Biden about that.

Posted by gorb 2020-04-02 14:29|| 2020-04-02 14:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Hard to annotate all his failures.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-02 22:57|| 2020-04-02 22:57|| Front Page Top

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