Somewhere on this site is a timeline of when the fun folks in Noo Yawk neglected to stockpile the medical supplies they were short of the last time there was an outbreak of contagious disease. On multiple occasions, they failed to look out for the citizens of NYC and the State, and now they want to blame that on the Federal Government?
What happened to the money that was supposed to go to medical supplies? Who used that, directly or indirectly to get reelected?
Ask and ye shall receive,
@Smokin Joe:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/new-york-modeled-a-pandemic-and-found-a-15000-ventilator-shortfall-2/2331057/New York Modeled A Pandemic and Found a 15,000 Ventilator ShortfallBy Tom Winter • Published March 17, 2020 • Updated on March 17, 2020 at 12:07 pm
A study that modeled what a pandemic would look like in New York found that the state might face a significant shortfall in ventilators, with many of the deaths relating to the pandemic happening in hospital.
But the year was not 2020. It was 2015 and the virus was fictitious one modeled as part of a study into what would happen in New York under a pandemic conducted by the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.
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Using a “severe scenario†modeling the 1918 ‘Spanish Flu’ the state determined there would be a ventilator shortfall of 15,783 during the peak of the pandemic .
So whether or not Jared knew it, Goobernor Cuomo pulled a spectacular number out of his rectum that was nearly double what the State of New York's task force had said would be needed for the peak of a worst-case model. The study to which the NBC article refers was released in late 2015, so the State of new York failed to buy what it knew were needed. New York did not buy the ventilators in 2016. New York did not buy the ventilators in 2017. New York did not buy the ventilators in 2018. New York did not buy the ventilators in 2019.
And then when the Feds sent NY several thousand ventilators, the State of New York placed them in stockpiles, because they were not yet needed.
https://nypost.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-in-ny-cuomo-defends-need-for-30k-ventilators-after-trump-called-it-overblown/ That move makes logistical sense, but it demonstrates that Cuomo was basing his demand on false urgency.
ETA: BTW, Jared Kushner is not "in charge" of the Trump Administration response to this coronavirus. Jared Kushner, last I checked, is not a member of the White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, let alone it head. So the NYT article's title is a straw man argument, fundamentally dishonest.
