Posted on 03/11/2020 2:07:58 PM PDT by ransomnote
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
It is the policy of the United States to take proactive measures to prepare for and respond to public health threats, including the public health emergency involving Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was declared by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on February 4, 2020, pursuant to section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3). We must ensure that our healthcare providers have full access to the products they need. On March 10, 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services took action by issuing a declaration pursuant to section 319F-3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-6d), which will help bring products necessary for addressing the epidemic to healthcare providers across the Nation. Unfortunately, at present, public health experts anticipate shortages in the supply of personal respiratory devices (respirators) available for use by healthcare workers in mitigating further transmission of COVID-19.
To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take all appropriate and necessary steps with respect to general use respirators to facilitate their emergency use by healthcare personnel in healthcare facilities and elsewhere, including under the authorities granted by section 319F-3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d-6d) and section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360bbb-3). Additionally, the Secretary of Labor shall consider all appropriate and necessary steps to increase the availability of respirators.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
DONALD J. TRUMP
I want to know what steps have been taken to assure a sufficient supply of ventilators since the outbreak. By how much will we be able to expand our hospital bed, ICU and ventilator capacities? And what have we done to assure that we have sufficient trained medical personnel to handle this, especially since we will likely lose a number of them to illness as well.
Same, are we rush-building factories to produce these goods? If not, why not?
we have the best medical care in the world, i should know, i had pneumonia after getting a liver transplant. (my work insurance paid (~2 million usd for me)
but we can’t handle the amount of people that would need to be hook up to vent.
Everyone should already have these items on hand. We do and have had for a very long time. Be prepared folks!
*facepalm*
Panic posting? On FR? *smh*
I agree the front-line MUST have them.
This order means the public will no longer have access to them.
Curiosity remains how this affects those industries that require them? Are the then closed for business?
According to someone at the CDC, respirators don’t work. And you can have my respirator when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!
Me thinks piece confuses Respirators aka tube into the lungs and N95 paper masks. big dif
Exactly. This is stuff that should have been worked out by now. The press don’t ask the right questions and Trump and his admin haven’t volunteered the right answers.
None of those are US Government problems. The government doesn’t own ventilator factories. The government doesn’t expand hospital bed capacities. The Government doesn’t produce medical personnel.
Government policies can only impede those efforts. New ones especially will do so.
On the other hand, if the government suspended it’s meddling, capitalism would utterly astonish you at the speed it would fill those needs.
BUT if you wanted to produce ventilators, build and expand hospitals, train new medical personnel and were ready to start today... an avalanche of Government and HHS and other regulatory BS would bury you.
The answer is not the that government should “do something”.
are they talking about ECMO?
“are we rush-building factories to produce these goods? If not, why not?”
If an entrepreneur had the money and desire, local, state and federal regulations stand solidly in the way and would drag it out to half a decade... at least.
Lesson for the day. In a crisis of any kind, Fedzilla will immediately grab everything and normal people will be given the finger. The central government will distribute them as they prefer.
As the sole customer now of all domestic production, Government will also initiate price freezes from the manufacturer, so the government doesn’t over pay.
This will effectively murder the fastest way to flood the market with more production, and will ensure a shorter supply.
We sure as hell are funding the care here. All of those at this point of crisis are government programs. Just as geting enough steel-making capacity and munitions factories going during WWII.
What should have happened was presidential order to suspend loads of regulations back in January—and to fund the expedited production of the supplies we need.
Yeah, they got 3M going with a factory for masks a couple of weeks ago, but all these supply chains wouldn’t have moved to China if the government hadn’t given favorable terms to manufacturing in China for our market.
The feds broke it and they should have got it fixed here in time of crisis.
You’ve got your own private ventilator and ICU unit and staff ready to go?
Completely justified. Medical personnel need N95s and other protective equipment first, everyone else gets what’s left over.
The government is doing something alright, an overnight $8.3 billion porkronovirus boondoggle.
I’m thinking of buying a nubulizer, in case we have to shelter at home if the healthcare system crashes. I have masks, nitrile gloves, goggles, booties, Tyvek suits, boxes of Emergen-C and Mucinex, vitamins, and hospital strength virus spray. It’s scary seeing those patients in Italy lying on their bellies so they don’t drown in their own fluids, like a scene out of Coma.
Has anybody found a record of this declaration? I'm looking.
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