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2020-03-27 | Hours After Doubting the Need for 40,000 Ventilators, Trump Demanded 40,000 Ventilators – Mother Jones

'Ventilators were now a priority, the President tweeted, while slamming General Motors for not producing what he said they promised. '

'Thursday night, President Donald Trump, during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity disagreed.“I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” Trump told Hannity. “You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they’ll have two ventilators.”By Friday morning, the tune and the villain had changed. '

'General Motors’ plans to open up production of ventilator masks had been weeks in the making. '

'The automobile manufacturer had been working to strike a deal with the administration to build thousands of ventilators. '

'With almost half of US novel coronavirus deaths in New York City and 44,000 people already infected there, Governor Andrew Cuomo asked the federal government for 30,000 ventilators on Tuesday to bolster the increasingly overwhelmed state healthcare system—where supply shortages, especially in New York City, are a major concern. '


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