On a day when he announced 33 deaths in Connecticut from COVID-19, Gov. Ned Lamont mused that the social distancing rules were working well but not well enough, and lamented the state isn’t getting the supplies and materials it needs.
“It was disturbing today to find out that the national strategic stockpile is now empty. We did get 50 ventilators, for which I am very thankful,” he said at his daily news briefing at the Capitol.
“For now, we’re on our own. For now, we are working our hearts out scouring the globe for PPEs as best we can,” Lamont added, referring to personal protective equipment such as face masks and haz-mat suits.
Less thsn two hours later a reporter asked President Donald Trump about Lamont’s remarks.
“Well, it’s not empty,” Trump shot back. “Let me explain something. What we’re doing, I thought I said it accurately, I certainly meant to, where appropriate, other than certain things, like we have quite a few of the ventilators....We’re trying to have supply sent directly to the states...We don’t want medical supplies coming in to warehouses all over the place and then we take then from there and bring them to another warehouse. So we’re having them brought ideally from the manufacturer ideally to the hospital or the state where it’s going.”
Lamont said Connecticut is the No 4 hardest hit state in the coronavirus crisis, in illnesses per capita, after New York, New Jersey and Louisiana. When it comes to federal aid, he wants to position Connecticut as part of the hard-hit New York metro area, rather than as a state on its own.
Trump also suggested that some governors — such as Andrew Cuomo of New York — believe they need more ventilators than they really need. He...
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