Most of the 100,000 ventilators that President Trump promised the U.S. would obtain won't be available until June
Most of the 100,000 ventilators that President Donald Trump promised the U.S. would obtain won't be available until June, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials told the House Oversight Committee this week.
FEMA officials, according to a readout of a pair of briefings by the panel's Democrats, indicated that a shortage of ventilators would worsen by the middle of this month before the coronavirus outbreak peaks. FEMA indicated there were just 9,500 ventilators in the national stockpile, with just 3,200 more expected by the week of April 13, the tail end of what Trump described recently as a "painful two weeks" as the outbreak is expected to worsen.
FEMA officials told committee members in a March 30 meeting and briefed the top Democrat and Republican at an April 1 briefing. The ventilator shortfall could worsen what is already expected to be a sharp spike in the number of cases and deaths from coronavirus around the country, as the spread of the disease is expected to climb until peaking perhaps by the middle of April.
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