Betsy McCaughey, Chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths is a former lieutenant governor of New York. In a column on the 18th, she pointed out that Governor Andrew Cuomo refused to buy enough ventilators to cover a pandemic, even while he had the funds back in 2015.
A severe case of coronavirus attacks the lungs and makes it impossible to breathe without a ventilator. New York has 16,000 too few ventilators and Governor Cuomo made that call in 2015, McCaughey writes.
Instead of buying ventilators, he “asked his health commissioner, Howard Zucker to assemble a task force and draft rules for rationing the ventilators they already had.”
“That task force came up with rules that will be imposed when ventilators run short. Patients assigned a red code will have the highest access, and other patients will be assigned green, yellow or blue (the worst) depending on a “triage officer’s” decision. In truth, a death officer. Let’s not sugarcoat it. It won’t be up to your own doctor. ”
“Cuomo could have purchased the additional 16,000 needed ventilators for $36,000 apiece or a total of $576 million in 2015. It’s a lot of money but less than the $750 million he threw away on a boondoggle “Buffalo Billion” solar panel .”
“The task force claimed there was no point in buying ventilators because there’s also a shortage of doctors and nurses trained to use them. Five years ago, that problem could have been fixed, too. Even now, the National Disaster Medical System can send staff to hot spots like New York.”
“But in New York, rationing ventilators should be unnecessary. The state knew of the shortage, had the money, and should have bought the lifesaving equipment, instead of making a plan on who should live or die.’
We’re sure the MSM will be right on this.
The first part is that Cuomo, and now Hochul and Adams, lined their own pockets with federal funds. The second is that Cuomo piled up dead covid bodies covered in black plastc bags along the Brooklyn waterfront as a “warning” to those who refused to submit to the vaxx bs. Hidden by NYC local media (NY1, NYPost, NYTimes, NY Daily… Read more »
there were no need for that many ventilators in 2015.No virus.Instead yesterday Cuomo received 1000 from China and 140 from Oregon.Cuomo is a man who is ahead to of the game.Sure,he would make a better president than sleepy Joe.He puts his state first and American needs a hero.The Fed Govt has done little to help him at all. Cuomo for… Read more »
With all due respect, please search ‘cuomo covid-19 national guard ventilators’ and any other words you can think of such as emergency supplies in NJ warehouse. The man is incompetent and narcissistic. He will destroy our Constitution and our country is elected president.
Ventilators bought in 2015 probably would have expired by 2020 anyway
I so rarely reply to these because of the potential reaction, I am replying here because I want the record straight in case I don’t get to see my grandchildren again. There’s no way to sugar coat this for you. As one who retired from and worked in NYS Emergency Management (which agency doesn’t even exist any more), extensive pandemic… Read more »
Beautifully said, Paul Wilson. God Bless us all and keep us well. Personally, I think the idiot politicians should be forced to go to the hospitals and walk among the sick and dying so they can see first-hand the results of their greed and bad policies.
Real question. Does anybody know how this compares to the amount of ventilators other states have? For instance, Louisiana and Florida are about to get hit really hard next. Did they plan for enough ventilators? Maybe they did, I don’t know. If we believe what the president said, not a single person thought this would ever happen to this level.… Read more »
“how do you blame Cuomo for not preparing for something no one thought would happen?” Um, you can blame Cuomo because as governor of New York, he made a conscious decision to NOT buy 16,000 N95 respirators and instead set up a Death Panel to decide who would live and who would die. Which category do you think you and/or… Read more »
I’m no Dem….but….paying 500 million for 16 thousand of those seems excessive. Besides….these bugs are just nature’s way of “culling the herd.” Those ventilators could’ve sat in storage for a decade or two and when needed might’ve had component deterioration, rendering them less than useful. But being a Dem run city….most likely a city employee would’ve heisted them and sold… Read more »
Democrats, The more they spend , the more they can steal.
A vote for a democrat is a vote to put America under islamic sharia slavery!