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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4416017" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p>Trump reveals a memo from 2015 where New York State Governor Cuomo declined to purchase 15,000 ventilators per recommendations from the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-didnt-have-to-have-ventilator-shortage-leaders-chose-not-to-prep-for-pandemic/" target="_blank">We didn’t have to have ventilator shortage — leaders chose not to prep for pandemic</a></strong></span></p><p>Several years ago (2015), after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road.</p><p>They could have chosen to buy more ventilators to back up the supplies hospitals maintain.</p><p><strong>Instead, the health commissioner, Howard Zucker, assembled a task force for rationing the ventilators they already had.</strong></p><p><strong><strong><a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/regulations/task_force/reports_publications/docs/ventilator_guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">2015 report titled VENTILATOR ALLOCATION GUIDELINES</a></strong></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-ventilators.html" target="_blank">N.Y. May Need 18,000 Ventilators Very Soon</a> </strong></span><em>- NY Times</em></p><p>The panel, the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, studied ventilators for years before issuing <strong><a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/regulations/task_force/reports_publications/docs/ventilator_guidelines.pdf" target="_blank">a 2015 report titled VENTILATOR ALLOCATION GUIDELINES</a></strong> offering guidance for hospitals on how to decide who to ventilate and who to effectively let die during an emergency. The advice is now frighteningly relevant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4416017, member: 18222"] Trump reveals a memo from 2015 where New York State Governor Cuomo declined to purchase 15,000 ventilators per recommendations from the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law. [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://nypost.com/2020/03/19/we-didnt-have-to-have-ventilator-shortage-leaders-chose-not-to-prep-for-pandemic/']We didn’t have to have ventilator shortage — leaders chose not to prep for pandemic[/URL][/B][/SIZE] Several years ago (2015), after learning that the Empire State’s stockpile of medical equipment had 16,000 fewer ventilators than the 18,000 New Yorkers would need in a severe pandemic, state public-health leaders came to a fork in the road. They could have chosen to buy more ventilators to back up the supplies hospitals maintain. [B]Instead, the health commissioner, Howard Zucker, assembled a task force for rationing the ventilators they already had. [B][URL='https://www.health.ny.gov/regulations/task_force/reports_publications/docs/ventilator_guidelines.pdf']2015 report titled VENTILATOR ALLOCATION GUIDELINES[/URL][/B][/B] [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-ventilators.html']N.Y. May Need 18,000 Ventilators Very Soon[/URL] [/B][/SIZE][I]- NY Times[/I] The panel, the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, studied ventilators for years before issuing [B][URL='https://www.health.ny.gov/regulations/task_force/reports_publications/docs/ventilator_guidelines.pdf']a 2015 report titled VENTILATOR ALLOCATION GUIDELINES[/URL][/B] offering guidance for hospitals on how to decide who to ventilate and who to effectively let die during an emergency. The advice is now frighteningly relevant. [/QUOTE]
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