Donald Trump Says New York Gov’s Request For 30K Ventilators Is Exaggerated
While phoning into Fox News on Thursday (Mar 27), President Donald Trump shared his belief that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s request for 30,000 ventilators is a bit exaggerated.
On Tuesday (Mar 24), Cuomo slammed the federal government for sending a portion of what he believed is needed to combat the coronavirus in the Empire State; which beat Washington State in total confirmed COVID-19 cases. He furiously asked, “You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators?”
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Responding to it, Trump shares, ““I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be. I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know you go into major hospitals sometimes they’ll have two ventilators and now, all of a sudden, they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'”
Trump adds that purchasing the machines are similar to buying cars, “very expensive [and] very intricate.” He adds, “And you know they’d say, like Gov. Cuomo and others, they’d say ‘We want 30,000 of them.’ Thirty thousand?” Trump said. “Think of this, you know you go to hospitals that have one in a hospital and now all of a sudden everyone’s asking for these vast numbers.”
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Trump concludes, “Look, it’s a very bad situation. We haven’t seen anything like it, but the end result is we gotta get back to work, and I think we can start by opening up some parts of the country.”