Governors Fight Back Against Coronavirus Chaos: 'It's Like Being on eBay With 50 Other States'
A chorus of governors from across the political spectrum is challenging the Trump administrations assertion that the United States is well-stocked to test and care for coronavirus patients.
A chorus of governors from across the political spectrum is publicly challenging the Trump administrations assertion that the United States is well-stocked and well-prepared to test people for the coronavirus and care for the sickest patients.
In New York State the center of the nations outbreak, with at least 1,550 deaths Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Tuesday that the countrys patchwork approach to the pandemic had made it harder to get desperately needed ventilators.
You now literally will have a company call you up and say, Well, California just outbid you, Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, said in his daily news briefing. Its like being on eBay with 50 other states, bidding on a ventilator.
Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican, said on Tuesday that his state was flying blind in the fight against the coronavirus because officials did not have enough tests. When asked during an NPR interview about President Trumps comments suggesting that a chronic lack of test kits was no longer a problem in the United States, Mr. Hogan did not mince words: Yeah, thats just not true.
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