De Blasio reveals Trump has now sent 4,000 ventilators to New York
By: Jennifer smith
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday afternoon that President Trump has sent 4,000 ventilators to New York after being slammed by Gov. Cuomo for only sending 400 this morning when the state needs at least 30,000 to fight the coronavirus.
The military has been forced to build a temporary morgue outside a hospital in the hard hit city where soaring infections and projections reveal its death rate could double every two days.
Soldiers worked outside Bellevue Hospital Tuesday where two refrigerated trailers were brought in to keep the dead, The New York Post reports. An RV labeled 'Medical Examiner' was seen nearby and a source told the paper there are plans to build the temporary morgues 'throughout the city'.
There are more than 26,000 cases of coronavirus in the state of New York: 271 people have died. That includes 14,904 in New York City. On Tuesday afternoon de Blasio said 131 people in the city had died.
De Blasio announced the new ventilators at a press conference, hours after Cuomo and Trump publicly traded insults over one another's handling of the crisis.
Cuomo had complained on Tuesday about receiving only 400 ventilators from FEMA when he needs 30,000 and told the president: 'What am I meant to do with 400? You want a pat on the back for that?'
Trump, in a town hall later in the afternoon, tried to shirk the blame for the shortage, saying Cuomo had the chance to buy 15,000 ventilators in 2015 but didn't.
At around 4pm, De Blasio announced that 4,000 were now on the way. He also announced Tuesday that the city hopes to close two streets per borough by Thursday for outdoor exercise; parks currently remain open.
'A short time ago I got the very good news that 4,000 ventilators from the federal government are on their way to New York State in the next 48 hours and half of them will come to New York City.
'That's great news but that's only the beginning of what we need. With the rate of increase of this disease, we need ventilators to be constantly supplied until we get to the point we're absolutely sure we have an ample supply.
'We're going to need many more,' he said.
'This is a race against time. Every one of us here who is in charge of fighting this battle, we are all racing against time. We need our federal government to join us in that race against time,' he said.
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The date of the article is March 24th. The title is not complete.
My purpose is to prove to those who are in denial that the state of New York has received 4,000 ventilators.
And if anybody's wondering where I got if from - I got it straight from Bill de Blasio!
DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said on Monday it will produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days at a plant in Michigan in cooperation with General Electric’s healthcare unit, and can then build 30,000 per month as needed to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus.
As Doug Heffernen would say "Now here's how this is gonna go down - After Gov Cuomo gets done with the 50,000 ventilators, we ship em' nation wide!"
Bring a tool bag with you to the hospital.
Somehow this will be turned into “Trump attacks Cuomo.”