Despite the projections of death and hospitalizations falling seemingly ever other day. the communists of New York, especially New York City are always whining they don’t have enough supplies of things like ventilators. Turns out Comrade Bill de Blasio auctioned off New York City’s supplies of ventilators, at least five years ago because of the “cost of maintenance.” Of course Cuomo is also silent about this. Elect a communist, this is the result. This is why New York is far and way the biggest disaster area of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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New York City auctioned off hundreds of city-owned ventilators at least five years ago under Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, according to an investigation by ProPublica.
The city acquired the ventilators in 2006 under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, when a new strain of the flu was circulating in Asia, according to a report from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene obtained by the news outlet.
The city began to acquire ventilators and “stockpile a supply of facemasks,” which were later auctioned off because the machines broke down and the health department “couldn’t afford to maintain them,” according to ProPublica.
Years later, the city has become the epicenter of the novel coronavirus in the U.S., with 72,324 confirmed cases and at least 5,489 deaths throughout the five boroughs, the mayor reported Tuesday.
The 14-year-old report obtained by ProPublica shows the city was keenly aware of the consequences of a potential pandemic, almost predicting the exact scenario that played out this year, according to the investigative outlet.