Agents of the federal government are reportedly now unilaterally seizing potentially life saving masks and gloves, many from hospitals who desperately need them.
As yahoo.com reports:
Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get what they need to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
Hospital and clinic officials in seven states described the seizures in interviews over the past week. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is not publicly reporting the acquisitions, despite the outlay of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, nor has the administration detailed how it decides which supplies to seize and where to reroute them.
Officials who’ve had materials seized also say they’ve received no guidance from the government about how or if they will get access to the supplies they ordered. That has stoked concerns about how public funds are being spent and whether the Trump administration is fairly distributing scarce medical supplies.
“In order to have confidence in the distribution system, to know that it is being done in an equitable manner, you have to have transparency,” said Dr. John Hick, an emergency physician at Hennepin Healthcare in Minnesota who has helped develop national emergency preparedness standards through the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
Are the seizures merely a bureaucratic error on the part of the federal government, or potentially something much more sinister? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Where is the copy of the order allowing the seizure of these medical supplies from these so called medical facilities. The Government did not pull up in the middle of the night with federal agents and 50 others to search for and load these so called items into vehicles, and no pictures from any cell phones or security cameras. I call this story Bull droppings.
I DO Notice that there are no names of Hospitals listed, No names of Organizations doing the Confiscations listed, this Does seem to be another of those “Anonymous sources Say”
Type Stories
My daughter is a nurse and discovered that the Sharp Health care system in San Diego is almost out of PPE because of seizures/non-replacement.
Get your daughter to contact her local tv station with proof of these seizures, plus the names of other witnesses.
FAKE NEWS
This is fake news or the Democrats have put someone up to sending his out it is not true anyone that knows and believes what our President stands for will know better.
I take it you can’t believe Lord Donnie wouldn’t commit grand theft to distribute to his cronies and the RNC. You’ll learn, someday.
What difference does it matter what any of us think. The anti-Trumper’s will blame Trump regardless of the truth. An investigation by trusted law-enforcement is needed rather than un-informed opinions. Let’s get facts not opinions!
I am pleased so many here read between the lines and saw through this sort of misinformation. Thank you for your astute comprehension Kbret, Lee Nixon, GreatDaneCM65, Art,Walkin O;Shea, lfry64, Oty Rodriguez, Gary M. David and the rest
This is probably fake news
That’s why Rush calls American educated journalists the “drive by media.”
Doing real investigating is too much like work…..
(and we all know what most Americans think of real work….. lol)
All these statements should be investigated and if they turn out to be right or wrong and the person or people they should be thank if right or investigated and placed in jail for 10 years.
What do government officials do, just go into hospitals, walk into every room/closet/storage space and fill buckets with items? This story is so filled with holes that it’s pitiful.
The ones complaining are in Minnesota. Minneapolis is not a hot zone. NYC, Jersey, N.Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, Detroit, these are hot zones. Stop the epidemic on the East Coast, and you guys in the Midwest won’t be hit hard, comprende, amigos? If FEMA is seizing the supplies, this is why.
What hospitals? What “clinical officials”? What supplies? How many? When?
Great job of investigative journalism. Remember “ who, what, when, how”? Is that not taught in journalism anymore?
That’s why Rush calls American educated journalists the “drive by media.”
Doing real investigating is too much like work…..
(and we all know what most Americans think of real work….. lol)
If this is truly a pandemic as all the so-called experts are saying, then it’s only right that the federal government would be taking excess supplies and moving them around the country into areas where they are most needed. That’s called good logistics.
Supplies should go to where they are needed now. Some of these hospitals are hoarding supplies, just like the toilet paper hoarders. If you need it fine, but if you have it in your closet for a Rainey day, whereas there is an immediate need for it somewhere else than you should give some up. You can’t have a Hooray for me and screw you attitude.
I’d say that these people in Minnessotta are trying to make the President look bad and I bet this doctor and others involved, they must be Trump haters. They don’t even respect that it’s Good Friday! They never stop the hate. Let FEMA do it’s job because they know what, why
and when they distribute whatever is available.
First & foremost not one source is named. Not one hospital or Hosp exec has gone on the record charging the Fed Govt is basically stealing supplies. In fact the only official to go on record saying he would take equip from one Hosp to give it to another in need was Gov. Cuomo(D-NY) . These unsubstantiated stories do more harm than good!
I agree I would like to see the President question these allegations more. When they say doctors all over the country or Governor’s across the country or hospitals across the country. He should say who, name me 3 governors or 2. Name me a doctor who said this or that etc; you get the point I am sure. Hear say, that’s all it is.
Than they might say we are protecting the whistleblower. Or Why is Trump planning retaliation.
my guess is that it’s B.S. as usual … just more deranged anti-Trump crappola.
Fake News, commie propaganda.
Willing to be that Trump is unaware, or was until now. It’s some Deep Stater who is in a position to screw things up and make the administration look bad.