March 30, 2020
March 30, 2020
I WANT THE PEOPLE IN NEW YORK TO CHECK GOVERNOR CUOMO, MAYOR DEBLASIO, THAT WHEN A HOSPITAL GETTING 10,000 MASKS GOES TO 300,000 MASKS DURING THE SAME PERIOD, A RAPID PERIOD, I’D LIKE THEM TO CHECK THAT, BECAUSE I HEAR STORIES LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME. WE ARE DELIVERING MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DIFFERENT PRODUCTS, AND ALL WE DO IS HEAR, CAN WE GET SOME MORE? WHEN YOU HEAR THAT, AND I HEARD THAT FROM ONE OF THE GREAT COMPANIES IN THE WORLD AT DOING THIS, IT IS A CLIENT, GOING FROM, YOU HEARD IT, 10,000 TO 20,000 TOPS, TO 300,000? THAT’S A HOSPITAL THAT IS ALWAYS FULL. I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD CHECK THAT, BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON. I DON’T KNOW IF IT IS HOARDING. IT IS MAYBE WORSE THAN HOARDING. CHECK IT OUT. I DON’T KNOW. I THINK THAT’S FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO FIGURE OUT. BUT YOU DON’T GO FROM NUMBERS LIKE THAT. OTHER EQUIPMENT, LIKEWISE. WE ARE DELIVERING A LOT OF VENTILATORS, BUILDING AND BUYING AND WE HAVE A LOT OF VENTILATORS WE’RE GOING TO BE SENDING OUT VERY SOON. WE ALSO HAVE RIGHT NOW IN THE STOCKPILE ALMOST 10,000 VENTILATORS THAT WE HAVE TO HOLD IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. WE DON’T WANT THEM GOING OUT AND THEN LOUISIANA HAS A TREMENDOUS PROBLEM WHICH WE NOW KNOW THEY DO, ALL OF A SUDDEN. IT CAME VERY QUICKLY. LOUISIANA WAS DOING SO FANTASTIC, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE IS A BIG RASH OF CASES. SO WE HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO MOVE THE VENTILATORS. THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. THEY ARE VERY EXPENSIVE, AND THEY ARE VERY COMPLEX. IT IS LIKE BUILDING A CAR. THESE ARE EXPENSIVE, COMPLICATED, VERY COMPLICATED PIECES OF EQUIPMENT. SO WE NOW HAVE 10,000, AND WE INHERITED A SYSTEM THAT WAS BROKEN. I’LL NEVER FORGET THE DAY WHEN THE GENERAL CAME AND SAID, SIR, MY FIRST WEEK IN OFFICE, WE HAVE NO AMMUNITION. THAT WAS IN THE MILITARY. NOW WE HAVE BUILT OUR MILITARY STRONGER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN. WE HAVE SO MUCH AMMUNITION. YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE HOW MUCH AMMUNITION WE HAVE. SAME THING HERE. WE HABE AVE A STOCKPILE THAT WAS DEFICIENT, WE HAD TESTING THAT WAS NO GOOD, A TESTING SITUATION THAT JUST WASN’T RIGHT. IT WAS OK FOR VERY SMALL CASES, BUT WAS OBSOLETE AND WAS BROKEN AND WAS ONLY GOOD FOR A VERY SMALL SITUATION. WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS, I’D LIKE TO ASK DR. FAUCI: TO COME FORWARD AND DISCUSS THE NUMBER, BECAUSE I THINK THE NUMBER IS GOING TO BE A VERY DIFFERENT NUMBER THAN THE NUMBERS YOU TALKED ABOUT PREVIOUSLY.
~President Trump extends COVID-19 guidelines to April 30, 2020.
Watch the March 29, 2020 White House COVID-19 news conference here.
