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Ten thousand ventilators, breathing
devices designed to save people with
critical respiratory issues, are stashed
away in the federal emergency stockpile at an
undisclosed location. They sit there ready for
the moment when a major pandemic would
require their use.
That moment has arrived, and New York
City fi nds itself in the heart of the tragedy.
The number of coronavirus patients is accelerating;
Governor Andrew Cuomo said
the number of new infections seems to be
doubling every three days.
Not everyone who contracts coronavirus
will need a ventilator. About 80% of those
who get the illness will never show symptoms,
or will become sick and heal at home.
Not all who wind up in the hospital will
need a ventilator, but a good amount of hospitalized
patients — especially seniors and
those with underlying medical issues — will
need them to survive.
New York state now expects that 140,000
people will need hospital space when the
pandemic hits its peak here. But the state
will also need more than 30,000 ventilators
to treat the most critically ill.
Cuomo’s scrambling to help these patients,
but he conceded Tuesday that the state needs
federal help immediately to stem the crisis.
As of Tuesday morning, the federal
government provided New York state with
400 ventilators — not nearly enough to meet
the need. Another 4,000 ventilators were
promised for the state, with 2,000 earmarked
for the city.
It’s still not enough.
More ventilators must be built to meet the
demand, and our nation has the apparatus
and manpower within the auto industry to
churn out all the ventilators we need in a
matter of weeks.
The problem is that no one is directing the
auto industry to do it.
Just one person has that authority — the
president of the United States.
The president can, under the Defense
Production Act, order companies in a time
of war or a similar crisis to build whatever
the country needs to achieve success.
President Trump has yet to utilize the act
when it comes to building ventilators.
What is he waiting for?
Coronavirus will not magically disappear.
Drug therapy trials will not spare everyone.
Ventilators have and will keep critically ill
patients breathing and save their lives.
They are needed now. They were needed
weeks ago as the crisis loomed on the
horizon.
Still, the president holds his breath — as
too many New Yorkers lose their own.
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