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President Trump on Tuesday called it the “scariest day” of his life when he had learned the United States might not have enough ventilators to eliminate the novel coronavirus.
” The scariest day of my life was about a month back, when after a long day of meetings my group told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators– that we were short hundreds of countless ventilators,” he stated during the everyday White Home press briefing.
The president went on to blame the Obama administration for lack of oversight in the past, and he implicated sitting governors of putting unrealistic needs on the federal government.
” This is the system we inherited,” Trump continued. “I had guvs asking for unreasonable amounts that the federal government just didn’t have and, you look at the states … The states were not prepared. I knew that everyone who needed a ventilator, and didn’t get one, would pass away.”
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After finding out of the ventilator lack, Trump said he advised his personnel to move rapidly in an effort to ration and distribute the devices to those who required them most.
” I instructed my team to move heaven and Earth to make certain that this didn’t take place,” he included.
The president likewise revealed the stopping of all U.S. federal funds to the World Health Company (WHO) for welcoming “political correctness” over “lifesaving procedures.”
Trump included: ” The WHO failed in this responsibility and needs to be held accountable.”
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As of Tuesday, there were nearly 600,000 cases of the coronavirus in the United States and simply over 25,000 fatalities.
Fox News’ Gregg Re contributed to this report.
