When it comes to government, history repeats itself again and again.
It was because when there’s a crisis, governments frantically buy and stockpile them, and then junk them.
The state, flush with tax revenue, soon sank more than $200 million into the mobile hospital program and a related Health Surge Capacity Initiative to stockpile medicines and medical gear for use in outbreaks of infectious disease, according to former emergency management officials and state budget records… With the funding cut, the state gave away some of the supplies and even considered disposing of what couldn’t be given away, Backer said.
We’d never made a ventilator before — and so we made thousands.
State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) said last month rejected Republican calls for an investigation, saying she took Hochul “at her word” that no wrongdoing was involved.
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