The website for the national repository of emergency equipment was updated this morning
The Acting Navy Secretary said that firing the captain who raised coronavirus alarm about a coronavirus outbreak onboard a U.S. aircraft carrier was the"The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be states' stockpiles that they then use," he said.
An HHS spokesperson also told POLITICO Tuesday that the role of the stockpile "is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies, limited displacements, localized disasters and terrorist attacks." Congress authorized the creation of the national stockpile of medical supplies in the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Response Act, whichThe legislation orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services to "maintain a stockpile or stockpiles of drugs, vaccines and other biological products, medical devices, and other supplies ... to provide for the emergency health security of the United States.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment when asked whether the White House ordered the change to the stockpile's webpage.
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