Ventilators linked to deadly Russian hospital fires were sent to U.S.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 by: Isabelle Z.
(Natural News) Masks and ventilators have been in short supply at various points during the coronavirus pandemic, but a recent incident involving dangerous ventilators illustrates just how important it is to choose medical supply sources carefully.
In early April, a shipment of 45 Russian Aventa-M ventilators was sent to FEMA officers in New York from Russia following a phone call between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Because New York and New Jersey were scrambling to prepare for a big wave of very ill patients at the time, a few corners were cut when it came to FDA approval.
While it’s true that the FDA has implemented an emergency protocol that enables the distribution of ventilators without losing time putting them through the traditional time-consuming approval processes, these ventilators didn’t even get the FDA’s expedited Emergency Use Authorization, or EUA. New rules allow the use of ventilators in the U.S. without an EUA while the FDA works to get the necessary authorizations, and the Aventa-M ventilators were distributed under this policy.
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