Agency officials acknowledged struggling with procuring masks, saying it's like "chasing rabbits in an open field," House Oversight Committee Democrats said.
Federal emergency officials told members of Congress this week that the projected demand for ventilators required for coronavirus-stricken patients"outstrips the capacity" of the Strategic National Stockpile, the House Oversight Committee said Thursday.
According to a news release from the committee's Democrats, FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor"has directed that ventilators be treated as a 'strategic national asset' and released to states only after they answer a 'tough series of questions' designed to identify an 'exigent need- to sustain life 'within 72 hours.'"
Trump said the"order will save lives by removing obstacles in the supply chain that threaten the rapid production of ventilators." States in FEMA Region III — Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. — had asked for 5.2 million N95 respirator masks, but as of Monday, they had received 445,000, less than 10 percent, according to the documents. They also requested 194 million pairs of gloves and had received 991,000, less than 1 percent. The areas also asked for 15,000 body bags but had yet to receive any by the end of March.
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