Governor Loans 500 State-Owned ventilators to the Strategic National Stockpile inventory

california governor imagePress release from the office of Governor Gavin Newsom:

Recognizing that states like New York are experiencing immediate supply shortages as a result of COVID-19, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced that California would help meet this moment by loaning 500 state-owned ventilators to the Strategic National Stockpile inventory.

“California is stepping up to help our fellow Americans in New York and across the country who are being impacted the hardest right now by the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Governor Newsom. “We still have a long road ahead of us in the Golden State – and we’re aggressively preparing for a surge – but we can’t turn our back on Americans whose lives depend on having a ventilator now. We’re meeting this moment with compassion. I know that if the tables were turned and we were experiencing a hospital surge, other states would come to our aid and provide ventilators just as we are today.”

California continues to prepare for a possible COVID-19 surge. The state is securing thousands of beds in alternate care facilities, protecting the homeless, purchasing critical medical equipment and launching new programs like the Health Corps to recruit health care professionals.

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really?
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really?
3 years ago

Stepping up is one thing. I’d be really comfortable if they had been lent to the governors of New York or Louisiana, but i heard the Kushner say the stockpile isnt ours.
If my family dies because we’re short one of these 500 masks because the stockpile gets mismanaged again, I’m take it pretty personally.

KH
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KH
3 years ago
Reply to  really?

I agree! Trump is sitting on that stockpile like a pile of gold! I agree that they should have gone straight to New York!! Wth!!??

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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  KH

Reading NBC or CNN deliberately edited words might have left that impression but what he really said was that some governors and senators were requesting ventilators from Federal stockpiles while their state had ventilators in their own State stockpiles or worse did not even know what they had or needed. The Federal stockpile already sent 2000 ventilators go New York City and were willing to send more as needed. But in essence, New York wanted all of the stockpile and Ohio wanted them too. As did Massachusetts, Kansas, Colorado, Minnesota, etc. All wanting the same ventilator.

Per https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/desperate-for-medical-equipment-states-encounter-a-beleaguered-national-stockpile/2020/03/28/1f4f9a0a-6f82-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html and https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ventilator-stockpile-coronavirus_n_5e7bb0c9c5b6256a7a239163

“The reality is the stockpile could never have enough money to be the immediate fallback for everybody, and nobody does anything themselves,” said Greg Burel, who spent a dozen years until January as the director of the stockpile.”

“Every year, Burel would review a list of items the experts wanted to have in the $8 billion stockpile, and every year the $500 million to $600 million he’d receive from Congress would only cover about half of those items. That meant making tough choices about what to stock, he said.”” “For the coronavirus outbreak, California has asked for 20 million N95 respirators — more than the stockpile’s entire inventory, estimated at about 12 million.”

What in hells the matter with you?
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What in hells the matter with you?
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

I heard him spout that nonsense.
What’s wrong with you?
Look, trump cant call himself the president of the United States and then say the states are on their own

I then heard him say the stockpile is for the federal government and not for the states.

I also heard and saw with my own eyes that they changed the federal website from saying ‘the stockpile is to be there for this emergency,’ to ‘its there if you can’t figure it out.’

If the states are on our own, let me tell you, I’m far too happy to secede away from that ass with our California economy. We are the economic engine of the United States with more sectors than any other single state. So if we are on our own, let’s go.

And if that is crazy talk (which it shoukd sound like to you) then so are Trump and Kushner s horrendous statements.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago

I watched the video too- which I presume was a longer version of what you watched- and he said what I said he said. What’s wrong with you that you rather believe hateful nonsense just because you’d rather hate than check it out to make sure you were not being fed a bunch of garabage? And worse, regurgitate it back to even more unsuspecting people? Of course the website was changed to something as horrible as the reality that the federal stockpile can not fulfill the wish lists of every politician because it’s limited supplies should be available equally to all to fill gaps in their own supplies. And just because you think yourself so rich that you do not have to be concerned with other countrymen…

tax payer
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tax payer
3 years ago
Reply to  KH

the fatal fake news forgot to report that virtually everyone who needs a ventilator has one. but that is because it is the truth and it was President Trumps own words.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Yes, he did say something close to that but will not be anymore true once the pandemic peaks than those haters who saying he’s profiting from holding ventilators back. He probably thought that they would be mass produced in the US but it ran into a hitch. I would expect the same hitch as everything these days- the components are made in China, not here.

tax payer
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tax payer
3 years ago
Reply to  really?

did you notice how Newsome said these are California’s ventilators? because they are ours. californians

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Well, it would be a matter of possession being 9/10th of the law. Cuomo already took some from other in his own state to send to NYC. https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-04-03/nyc-mayor-urges-national-enlistment-program-for-doctors

Mike
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Mike
3 years ago
Reply to  Guest

How about Remington offering their 1million square foot warehouse and sereval thousand employees to build ventilators in New York but Cuomo ignoring them because of politics? So I don’t give a shit about New Yorkers if they would rather die than accept help from a gun manufacture.

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Mike

It’s all in the details. Maybe what Remington is offering can not be made useful. Or whatever is needed to make it useful is not available. News articles seldom contain enough details to evaluate. Certainly the reason Cuomo hasn’t accepted the offer has not been made public and I would not care to assume.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago

Go California!

* Also of note is how many Californians responded to the Governor’s call for a health corps .

He wanted 37,000. He received over 80,000.

Of course there is a filtration process ahead but – we got spirit!

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
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What
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What
3 years ago

Wait what… why would he give them to the fed pile when the Jared just said those supplies were not going to be available to states. It would be more useful to loan them to NY directly. ???

Willow Creeker
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Willow Creeker
3 years ago
Reply to  What

Hes our head executive, let him make the decisions. Criticize later. I think it’s a bold move and a smart move. Of course if it backfires they’ll be hell to pay.

here's what's up
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here's what's up
3 years ago
Reply to  Willow Creeker

When it backfires, 500 people will be dead every two weeks. (Most people need them 2 weeks)

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  What

He’s helping others while we can.

We are far ahead of many states in regards to physical distancing, and it may have significantly impacted our potential curve.

We are abundant in resources, and still have thousands of ventilators being refabricated and others being delivered to us in next few days.

We were aggressive on procurement of resources and it seems we can afford to share.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Saw some disturbing video today, of crowds going to Trader Joe’s in New York and a hip-hop street party in Cincinnati a couple of days ago. No masks, no social distancing, and even a defiant pronouncement of “we don’t give a fuck about coronavirus.” This thing is far from improving.

Greg Graffin
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Greg Graffin
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Keep your head in the county.

think Global, Act local.

all the rest is static.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  Greg Graffin

When there are a finite number of resources being allocated nationally, what happens across the continent affects us locally.

Greg Graffin
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Greg Graffin
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Maybe focus on your finite needs, and not the allocation nationally. We have too many opinions and not enough people who’ve done their own preparations. This incessant need to digest everyone’s actions outside your sphere of influence is a schizophrenic induced “reach” to be of service.

Grow your Garden, Tend to your Home, release the white knuckle grip on the ticker tape.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

Hopefully extremes on both ends will balance the spectrum.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Dang. 2nd try for photo.

Erik
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Erik
3 years ago
Reply to  The Real Brian

Thats n10,000

tax payer
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tax payer
3 years ago
Reply to  What

Newsome has said that the feds are doing a good job distributing

tax payer
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tax payer
3 years ago

I know that if the tables were turned

i call bullshit. california prepared and new york didnt. does anyone know the last time new york did anything for california

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Probably around the same time you last did anything for California.

Max Head Room
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Max Head Room
3 years ago
Reply to  Thirdeye

And what say thou of your own contributions?

Your mirror is in need of a reflection.

kelley
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kelley
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Well, I think Newsom has taken a very dangerous risk with other people’s lives! I think those vents should have bypassed the stockpile the way i pass up drug dealers behind the bar. (With a strong sense of self-preservation and a mild air of disdain)
I’m all for helping new Yorkers, Georgians, and even thoughtless Louisianans who get on crowded church buses during a pandemic just as though their brains were mere toys to take out and play with.
(Because those willfully ignorant believers arent the only ones who’ll end up sick. So will their postal clerks, their grocery clerks, etc)

But the national stockpile, we are told absolutely, is not ours. Mr fema says ‘I promise. They’ll get where they need to be,’ but trump fires people by tweet for anything and everything.
Why would we believe any federal government representative has the power to promise us anything in opposition to the Presidents’ word on a matter?

Newsom spent Saturday telling us how sorry he was about the slow rate of testing, how he owned thst and we deserved better, and then within 48 hours sends vital equipment that’s in critically low supply into a potential void.

This might cost more lives than we are already going to lose.

We dont have time or resources for mistakes, not even ones made in good faith.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

A reporter’s role is to question and to document, 

Then get the hell out there and question, but consider it documented here already.

The Real Brian
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The Real Brian
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Did you listen to Newsom answer questions regarding the ventilators during his address yesterday?

kelley
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kelley
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Neither of these pieces documents how California will track where these items go and whether they get used. That’s the question.

The question isn’t why or if to send them. Of course we would send them. But the method of trusting the federal government appears dangerous at this time

Guest
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Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  kelley

Or not. “The names of the nine people charged in a scheme outlined by federal prosecutors on Thursday read like a starting lineup of friends of the New York governor, longtime acquaintances and deep-pocketed donors and their associates — and one man who had come to be like family to Mr. Cuomo. And the charges contained within were as ugly as they come in government work: bribes, extortion, fraud, conspiracy.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/nyregion/cuomos-silver-lining-in-new-albany-graft-case-no-sign-he-did-wrong.html

“Alain E. Kaloyeros, a principal architect of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s signature economic development initiative, was convicted on Thursday in a bid-rigging scheme that steered hundreds of millions of dollars in state contracts to favored companies in Buffalo and Syracuse.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/nyregion/kaloyeros-guilty-buffalo-billion-cuomo.html

And after all, New York is only the 5th most corrupt State in the nation. (yes, sarcasm)

W
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W
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

What about newsome sending patients from the airforce base to all the surrounding hospitals. The best example is the patient he sent to santa rosa hospital after being at the airforce base, this was patient #1 in santa rosa. Then the patient died at home from the virus. Wouldn’t we be better served if the patient had stayed at the airforce base?

tax payer
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tax payer
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

yes. but Joseph didnt say he knew his brothers would have helped him if the tables were turned. why do we have to act like new yorkers are saints

Guest
Guest
Guest
3 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

I suspect in general New Yorker’s (NYC) variety would disagree with you.

Thirdeye
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Thirdeye
3 years ago
Reply to  tax payer

Aren’t you one of the people who continues to sneer at what California does to mitigate the outbreak, and at people who are on board with what the State and the County are doing?

For example:

https://kymkemp.com/2020/04/06/what-is-contact-tracing-humboldt-county-joint-information-center-answers-questions/#comment-1026207

https://kymkemp.com/2020/04/06/what-is-contact-tracing-humboldt-county-joint-information-center-answers-questions/#comment-1026211

Greg Graffin
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