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solarbirdI'm not bolding any of these because they're all very important.
I absolutely do think this administration will try to shift deaths to Democratic states if they think they can get away with it, by which I mean do it without people catching on enough to call it out with proof. I absolutely, absolutely do think that.
And it's becoming a little bit harder every day to think they aren't.
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Warren to feds: Why did you take Massachusetts’ medical supplies?
By Matt Stout Globe Staff
Updated March 31, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/31/nation/warren-feds-why-did-you-take-massachusettss-medical-supplies/
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing federal officials for answers on why they seized at least two of Massachusetts’ recent orders for protective equipment, charging that it appears they are still interfering with states’ efforts to track down medical supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a five-page letter Monday, Warren asked Peter Gaynor, the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, to outline how the agency is ensuring states aren’t outbid for supplies by the federal government, which she called a “new and inexplicable obstacle.”
Warren also pointed to at least two instances in which Massachusetts lost orders for ventilators and hundreds of respirators after the federal government stepped in — a situation Marylou Sudders, the state’s health and human service secretary, described as: "They take what we order.”
Sudders said the Trump administration also impounded a third order of 3 million masks the state had negotiated to buy earlier in March.
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Governors plead for medical equipment from federal stockpile plagued by shortages and confusion
By Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey, Chelsea Janes and Isaac Stanley-Becker
March 31, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/governors-plead-for-medical-equipment-from-federal-stockpile-plagued-by-shortages-and-confusion/2020/03/31/18aadda0-728d-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html
As states across the country have pleaded for critical medical equipment from a key national stockpile, Florida has promptly received 100 percent of its first two requests — with President Trump and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis both touting their close relationship.
States including Oklahoma and Kentucky have received more of some equipment than they requested, while others such as Illinois, Massachusetts and Maine have secured only a fraction of their requests.
It’s a disparity that has caused frustration and confusion in governors’ offices across the country, with some officials questioning whether politics is playing a role in the response.
Governors are making increasingly frantic requests to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for material. State and congressional leaders are flooding FEMA with letters and calls seeking clarity about how it is allocating suddenly in-demand resources such as masks, ventilators and medical gowns.
“Frustration level is high,” Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) said of the struggle to find ventilators for patients infected by the novel coronavirus. “We’re hoping we’ll be able to get them. The federal government needs to help us with that. There’s no question.”
Governors and state officials have become increasingly frustrated by what they describe as a byzantine and unsteady process for distributing medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile. As they try to combat a worsening pandemic, several have complained about chaos and disarray within the system and a lack of guidance about how they can secure lifesaving supplies, according to interviews and documents from officials in more than a dozen states.
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Washington may get only a fraction of the ventilators it requested from the federal government to fight the coronavirus
By Joseph O’Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-may-get-only-a-fraction-of-the-ventilators-it-requested-from-the-federal-government-to-fight-the-coronavirus/
OLYMPIA — Washington may get only a fraction of the ventilators it requested from the federal government’s national stockpile of medical supplies, Gov. Jay Inslee’s chief of staff said Tuesday.
As the state prepared for hospitalizations of people with the new coronavirus, Washington’s emergency responders requested 500 ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), according to David Postman.
The state was told Monday night it would get 100 of those, Postman said, “And now there’s some question of whether that’s going to happen right now.”
“It’s unclear at this point how many we will get, so we’re trying to clarify that,” he added later.
Postman said that, “One of the things that we’ve heard because there are some ways where we’ve been able to flatten the curve,” potentially slowing the spread of the coronavirus, “the federal government looks at that and says we have more pressing needs elsewhere.”
While Postman said he understands the demand in other states for such gear, “we need to make sure that doesn’t stop us from getting what we think we need.”
I absolutely do think this administration will try to shift deaths to Democratic states if they think they can get away with it, by which I mean do it without people catching on enough to call it out with proof. I absolutely, absolutely do think that.
And it's becoming a little bit harder every day to think they aren't.
- Warren to feds: Why did you take Massachusetts’ medical supplies?
- Governors plead for medical equipment from federal stockpile plagued by shortages and confusion
- Washington [State] may get only a fraction of the ventilators it requested from the federal government to fight the coronavirus>
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Warren to feds: Why did you take Massachusetts’ medical supplies?
By Matt Stout Globe Staff
Updated March 31, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/31/nation/warren-feds-why-did-you-take-massachusettss-medical-supplies/
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing federal officials for answers on why they seized at least two of Massachusetts’ recent orders for protective equipment, charging that it appears they are still interfering with states’ efforts to track down medical supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a five-page letter Monday, Warren asked Peter Gaynor, the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, to outline how the agency is ensuring states aren’t outbid for supplies by the federal government, which she called a “new and inexplicable obstacle.”
Warren also pointed to at least two instances in which Massachusetts lost orders for ventilators and hundreds of respirators after the federal government stepped in — a situation Marylou Sudders, the state’s health and human service secretary, described as: "They take what we order.”
Sudders said the Trump administration also impounded a third order of 3 million masks the state had negotiated to buy earlier in March.
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Governors plead for medical equipment from federal stockpile plagued by shortages and confusion
By Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey, Chelsea Janes and Isaac Stanley-Becker
March 31, 2020
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/governors-plead-for-medical-equipment-from-federal-stockpile-plagued-by-shortages-and-confusion/2020/03/31/18aadda0-728d-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html
As states across the country have pleaded for critical medical equipment from a key national stockpile, Florida has promptly received 100 percent of its first two requests — with President Trump and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis both touting their close relationship.
States including Oklahoma and Kentucky have received more of some equipment than they requested, while others such as Illinois, Massachusetts and Maine have secured only a fraction of their requests.
It’s a disparity that has caused frustration and confusion in governors’ offices across the country, with some officials questioning whether politics is playing a role in the response.
Governors are making increasingly frantic requests to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for material. State and congressional leaders are flooding FEMA with letters and calls seeking clarity about how it is allocating suddenly in-demand resources such as masks, ventilators and medical gowns.
“Frustration level is high,” Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) said of the struggle to find ventilators for patients infected by the novel coronavirus. “We’re hoping we’ll be able to get them. The federal government needs to help us with that. There’s no question.”
Governors and state officials have become increasingly frustrated by what they describe as a byzantine and unsteady process for distributing medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile. As they try to combat a worsening pandemic, several have complained about chaos and disarray within the system and a lack of guidance about how they can secure lifesaving supplies, according to interviews and documents from officials in more than a dozen states.
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Washington may get only a fraction of the ventilators it requested from the federal government to fight the coronavirus
By Joseph O’Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/washington-may-get-only-a-fraction-of-the-ventilators-it-requested-from-the-federal-government-to-fight-the-coronavirus/
OLYMPIA — Washington may get only a fraction of the ventilators it requested from the federal government’s national stockpile of medical supplies, Gov. Jay Inslee’s chief of staff said Tuesday.
As the state prepared for hospitalizations of people with the new coronavirus, Washington’s emergency responders requested 500 ventilators from the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS), according to David Postman.
The state was told Monday night it would get 100 of those, Postman said, “And now there’s some question of whether that’s going to happen right now.”
“It’s unclear at this point how many we will get, so we’re trying to clarify that,” he added later.
Postman said that, “One of the things that we’ve heard because there are some ways where we’ve been able to flatten the curve,” potentially slowing the spread of the coronavirus, “the federal government looks at that and says we have more pressing needs elsewhere.”
While Postman said he understands the demand in other states for such gear, “we need to make sure that doesn’t stop us from getting what we think we need.”
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