California donates ventilators to struggling states

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California has donated extra working ventilators to states currently being hit hard.

That's nice of them.

As of a week ago, the feds were holding 10,500 or so. I wonder how many they still have left? If we're at a place where states are donating theirs I would hope the feds are basically all gone.

Any one able to find that information?

 

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I wonder how many they still have left? If we're at a place where states are donating theirs I would hope the feds are basically all gone.

Any one able to find that information?

Not sure about ventilators, but...

New details from HHS and FEMA released by the Oversight Committee indicates that federal government has depleted 90% of its stockpile of respirators/gloves/other emergency equipment. Remaining 10% will be kept for federal workers.

With the federal stockpile for personal protective equipment dwindling during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trump administration reportedly sent shipments to states in a third and "final push" before the private sector takes on the bulk of the effort.

The first two rounds of shipments were based on census data from 2010, while the third round apparently wasn't adjusted for population at all.

Vermont and Texas, for example, which aren't remotely comparable in size, both received 120,900 N95 respirator masks. That's good news for Vermont, but not so much for Texas. To put in perspective, Vermont received 193 respirators for every 1,000 residents while Texas got five per 1,000. While equal distribution sounds nice in theory, it doesn't seem to make much sense in this case.