'Our country depends on these highly skilled workers and not they’re wondering why they are facing layoffs instead of having the opportunity to use their unbelievable skills to help save lives'
reported Sunday that public health officials anticipated ventilator shortages more than a decade ago and enacted a plan to build a fleet of new machines to accommodate possible viral outbreaks. The company the government contracted to build the machines was bought out by a larger firm and the machines were never built. In a “Fox and Friends” interview Monday morning, President Donald Trump said he ordered federal officials to ship ventilators directly to hospitals in need.
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