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Trump Did Nothing About Masks, Gowns, and Gloves (PPE)?
« on: August 26, 2020, 01:24:19 pm »
Trump Did Nothing About Masks, Gowns, and Gloves (PPE)?

The primary responsibility for having necessary Personal Protective Equipment and equipment such as ventilators is with hospitals. They need to have sufficient for predictable usage, plus allowance for repairs and maintenance, plus allowance for a moderate surges in demand. For greater surges in demand, cities, then counties, then states should each have stockpiles of PPE and equipment such as ventilators. The Federal Government should be the last, not the first, resort for such supplies and equipment.

Looking at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html , it was only on March 15th that the count of daily confirmed new cases in the US topped 1000. With that as context, what has the Trump Administration done with regard to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?

March 4, 2020 - HHS announced intent to purchase 500 million N95 respirators over the next 18 months for the Strategic National Stockpile; https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/04/hhs-to-procure-n95-respirators-to-support-healthcare-workers-in-covid-19-outbreaks.html

March 17, 2020 - Defense Department to give HHS up to 5M respirator masks, 2,000 ventilators; https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/2115200/dod-poised-to-provide-masks-ventilators-labs-to-hhs-for-coronavirus-fight/

March 18, 2020 - Pernod Ricard USDA began producing hand sanitizer at all of its US distilleries, in coordination with and assisted by the White House Task Force; https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pernod-ricard-usa-produces-hand-sanitizer-to-help-us-combat-covid-19-virus-301026216.html

March 23, 2020 - Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to forbid hoarding, speculating, and price-gouging of PPE and sanitizing products; https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-hoarding-health-medical-resources-respond-spread-covid-19/

March 27, 2020 - Executive order delegating to the Secretaries of HHS, DHS, and Defense President Trump's authority to make or guarantee loans, purchase and commit to purchase, and other actions to obtain and facilitate the domestic manufacture of PPE, ventilators, and other medical necessities; https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/eo-delegating-additional-authority-dpa-respect-health-medical-resources-respond-spread-covid-19/

March 27, 2020 - Under DPA order, GM and Ventec partnering to produce ventilators; GM will also produce surgical masks at its Warren, MI, ramping up to 50K a day in two weeks, with potential to produce up to 100K per day; https://www.venteclife.com/news/ventec-life-systems-and-gm-partner-to-mass-produce-critical-care-ventilators-in-response-to-covid19-pandemic

March 30, 2020 - FDA approved Battelle’s process for decontaminating tens of thousands of N95 masks per day; https://www.wtol.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fda-approves-use-of-battelles-mask-sterilizing-technology-at-full-capacity/512-265af79c-a9b5-4833-95b1-c4da65e81a91 , https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/03/30/secretary-azar-statement-on-fda-authorization-of-mask-sterilization-procedure.html (FDA has slow-walked this approval since 2016!)

March 30, 2020 - Under DPA, Honeywell has begun expansion of its Phoenix, AZ which produces N95 masks; https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/newsroom/pressreleases/2020/03/honeywell-further-expands-n95-face-mask-production-by-adding-manufacturing-capabilities-in-phoenix

April 1, 2020 - White House, HHS, FDA worked with Senator Rob Portman to acquire, authorize use of two million gowns donated to the Strategic National Stockpile by Cardinal Health; 2020, https://riponadvance.com/stories/portman-coordinates-cardinal-healths-gown-donation-to-strategic-national-stockpile/

April 2, 2020 - Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to direct 3M to produce more N95 masks; https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/826945445/defense-production-act-would-compel-3m-to-change-mask-production-and-export, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-order-defense-production-act-regarding-3m-company/

April 3, 2020 - Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to forbid export of PPE masks and gloves; https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-allocating-certain-scarce-threatened-health-medical-resources-domestic-use/

April 6, 2020 - Trump announced an agreement with 3M to produce, import 55.5 million N95 masks a month the next three months; https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/coronavirus-trump-and-3m-strike-deal-to-bring-55point5-million-masks-a-month-to-us.html

April 8, 2020 - HHS announced agreement with DuPont and FedEx to manufacture, deliver 2.25M new Tyvek Protective Suits to Strategic National Stockpile; https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/04/08/hhs-provide-millions-tyvek-protective-suits-us-healthcare-workers.html

April 12, 2020 - FDA issued an emergency authorization for devices from Advanced Sterilization Products, which can decontaminate ~4 million N95 respirators each day; https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-issues-emergency-use-authorization-decontaminate-millions-n95

April 13, 2020 - DoD announced it was buying 60 Battelle decontamination systems which can sanitize 80,000 N95 respirators per day; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2148352/dod-contract-for-60-n95-critical-care-decontamination-units-415m-contract-each/

April 14, 2020 - EPA announced it has temporarily waived certain approvals for manufacturers producing coronavirus disinfectants; https://ethanol.org/ethanol-essentials/covid-19

April 17, 2020 - Under DPA, Honeywell has begun production of N95 face masks in a new facility in Rhode Island; https://www.honeywell.com/en-us/newsroom/pressreleases/2020/04/honeywell-begins-production-of-n95-face-masks-in-smithfield-ri

April 20, 2020 - Coordinated by White House equipment czar Peter Navarro, Owens & Minor provided specialized fabric, UPS transported it to NYC, where several manufacturers will sew them into 400K surgical gowns by May 23; https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/nyc-garment-districts-to-produce-surgical-gowns-amid-coronavirus/

April 21, 2020 - Under the DPA, DOD to invest $133 million to increase US domestic N95 mask production by over 39 million over the next 90 days; three companies were awarded contracts, 3M , O&M Halyard, and Honeywell; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2158351/dod-details-133-million-defense-production-act-title-3-covid-19-project/

May 1, 2020 - Under the DPA and CARES Act, DOD in coordination with HHS, has signed a $126 million contract award with 3M for the increased production of 26 million N95 medical-grade masks per month, starting in October 2020; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2178152/dod-awards-126-million-contract-to-3m-increasing-production-of-n95-masks/ , https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110794/witnesses/HHRG-116-AS00-Wstate-LordE-20200610.pdf

May 1, 2020 - Under the DPA and CARES Act, DOD in coordination with HHS, has signed a $20.1 million contract award with Moldex for increased production capacity by 5 million N95 masks per month; https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110794/witnesses/HHRG-116-AS00-Wstate-LordE-20200610.pdf

May 7, 2020 - 3M announced that it received two more U.S. Department of Defense contracts to expand US production of N95 respirator masks; https://www.massdevice.com/3m-wins-govt-contracts-to-further-expand-u-s-respirator-production/ , https://investors.3m.com/news/news-details/2020/3M-Awarded-Department-of-Defense-Contracts-to-Further-Expand-US-Production-of-N95-Respirators/default.aspx

May 8, 2020 - FDA issued an EUA for the Duke Decontamination System to decontaminate compatible N95 or N95-equivalent respirators for reuse by health care personnel; https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-daily-roundup-may-8-2020

May 28, 2020 - FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization for the Stryker Sustainability Solutions (SSS) VHP N95 Respirator Decontamination System; https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-daily-roundup-may-28-2020

May 28, 2020 - Under the DPA, DOD in support of HHS signed a $2.2 million contract with Hollingsworth & Vose to increase US production of 27.5 million N95 ventilator filters and 3.1 million N95 respirators per month starting in August; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2200654/dod-announces-defense-production-act-title-3-covid-19-ppe-project-22-million-in/

June 19, 2020 - Under the DPA, DOD in coordination with HHS signed a $13.5 million contract with Lydall, Inc. to increase domestic capacity of meltblown filtration media, a key component in N95 masks; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2245825/dod-awards-135-million-contract-to-lydall-inc-to-increase-domestic-production-o/

July 13, 2020 - Under the DPA, DOD in coordination with HHS awarded Renco Corp. a NTE $22.4 million contract with Lydall, Inc. to increase domestic production capacity of Nitrile beutadine rubber gloves; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2272447/

July 23, 2020 - Under the DPA, DOD in coordination with HHS awarded Pall Corporation a NTE $4.9 million contract to increase domestic production capacity of ventilator filters; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2286217/dod-awards-49-million-contract-to-pall-corporation-to-increase-industrial-base/

July 25, 2020 - Under the DPA, DOD in coordination with HHS signed a $2.75 million contract with NPS to increase domestic capacity of meltblown filtration media, a key component in N95 masks; https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2288304/dod-awards-275-million-contract-to-nps-to-increase-domestic-production-of-meltb/

August 25, 2020 - HHSannounced the release of 1.5 million N95 respirators from the Strategic National Stockpile distribution to approximately 3,336 US nursing home facilities; https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/25/trump-administration-release-1-5-million-n95-respirators-from-strategic-national-stockpile-distribution-nursing-homes.html
« Last Edit: September 13, 2020, 02:06:02 pm by PeteS in CA »
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.


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Re: Trump Did Nothing About Masks, Gowns, and Gloves (PPE)?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2020, 02:09:27 pm »
Joe Biden has claimed that had Trump gone all-in on masks, urging people to use them, 100,000 lives could have been saved. See, for example, https://www.factcheck.org/2020/09/factchecking-bidens-town-hall/ . Factcheck.org called out Biden's "incorrect" attribution of the study he cited ("incorrectly" attributing it to the CDC insinuated that President Trump flouted advice he was getting from the CDC, so was it "incorrect" or a lie Biden thought almost no one would fact-check?).

Factcheck.org did not point out the fallacious absurd assumption that huge numbers of Americans would have worn masks if only Trump advised it.

Factcheck.org did not point out that ~47% of deaths have been long term care facility patients ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ETm51GayRjlnoaRVtUOWfkolEeAQZ-zPhXkCbVe4_ik/edit#gid=435667374 ) whose ability to obtain masks and wear masks was not within their control.

But there's a key assumption underlying Biden's claim that Factcheck.org could easily have checked (so easy, I did it using just a search engine and a reasonably intelligent search phrase) but did not. Biden's claim assumes President Trump acted contrary to the existing advice of public health agencies, that those organizations were advising that healthy people wear masks to prevent being infected. Well, in January, February, and March of 2020, the Surgeon General of the US, the CDC, leaders from the NIH, HHS, and the World Health Organization all advised that healthy people NOT wear masks to prevent being infected. In other words, President Trump was following these organizations', "the scientists", advice. Until April these organizations advised that only people who were sick and health care workers wear masks.

January 30, 2020 - CDC recommended against people wearing face masks; https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-dont-have-to-wear-facemasks-because-of-coronavirus-2020-01-30

January 30, 2020 - Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the Center for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said, "We don’t routinely recommend the use of face masks by the public to prevent respiratory illness. And we certainly are not recommending that at this time for this new virus."; https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-cdc-says-americans-dont-have-to-wear-facemasks-because-of-coronavirus-2020-01-30 ; https://abcnews.go.com/Health/delta-suspends-us-flights-china-amid-coronavirus/story?id=68666037

February 13, 2020 - CDC has released new information regarding the use of PPE, including masks; the general public is advised to not use facemasks; https://www.krqe.com/health/coronavirus/nmdoh-cdc-advise-general-public-against-using-facemasks-to-prevent-coronavirus/

February 29, 2020 - Surgeon General Jerome Adams, "(Masks) are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus";

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1233725785283932160

March 2, 2020 - Surgeon General Jerome Adams, "(Masks have) not been proven to be effective in preventing the spread of coronavirus amongst the general public"; https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/surgeon-general-against-masks/

March 8, 2020 - Dr. Anthony Fauci, "There's no reason to be walking around with a mask"; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask-60-minutes-2020-03-08/

March 30, 2020 - Arleen Purcell, CDC spokeswoman, reiterated existing CDC guidelines that people who are well should not wear the masks to prevent contracting the virus; https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/30/coronavirus-masks-trump-administration-156327

March 30, 2020 - Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO health emergencies program, said, "There is no specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population has any potential benefit."; https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html

March 30, 2020 - Dr. Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the WHO said, "In the community, we do not recommend the use of wearing masks unless you yourself are sick ..."; https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/world/coronavirus-who-masks-recommendation-trnd/index.html

March 31, 2020 - Surgeon General Jerome Adams, "What the World Health Organization [WHO] and the CDC [The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] have reaffirmed in the last few days is that they do not recommend the general public wear masks."; https://www.foxnews.com/media/surgeon-general-explains-masks-public-coronavirus

March 31, 2020 - CDC reconsidering advice against public wearing of masks to prevent Covid-19 spread; https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/mar/31/cdc-mask-recommendarions-coronavirus-being-reconsi/

It was only in April of 2020 that US public health agencies reversed their advice.

So, did Biden lie? Or is Biden that ignorant?
« Last Edit: September 25, 2020, 02:11:20 pm by PeteS in CA »
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.