ppe - Forum - Command Center2024-03-29T14:03:08Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/feed/tag/ppeTrump administration weighs legal action over alleged Chinese hoarding of PPEhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/trump-administration-weighs-legal-action-over-alleged-chinese-hoa2020-04-07T15:09:45.000Z2020-04-07T15:09:45.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4351945774,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4351945774,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="600" alt="4351945774?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<p>Leading US manufacturers of medical safety gear told the White House that China prohibited them from exporting their products from the country as the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/05/us-reports-highest-single-day-coronavirus-death-toll-since-outbreak/">coronavirus pandemic</a> mounted — even as Beijing was trying to “corner the world market” in personal protective equipment, The Post has learned.</p>
<p>Now, the Trump administration is weighing legal action against China over its alleged actions, a lawyer for President Trump said Sunday.</p>
<p>“In criminal law, compare this to the levels that we have for murder,” said Jenna Ellis, a senior legal adviser to Trump’s re-election campaign.</p>
<p>“People are dying. When you have intentional, cold-blooded, premeditated action like you have with China, this would be considered first-degree murder.”</p>
<p>Ellis said the options under consideration include filing a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights or working “through the United Nations.”</p>
<p>Executives from 3M and Honeywell told US officials that the Chinese government in January began blocking exports of N95 respirators, booties, gloves and other supplies produced by their factories in China, according to a senior White House official.</p>
<p>China paid the manufacturers their standard wholesale rates, but prohibited the vital items from being sold to anyone else, the official said.</p>
<p>Around the same time that China cracked down on PPE exports, official data posted online shows that it imported 2.46 billion pieces of “epidemic prevention and control materials” between Jan. 24 and Feb. 29, the White House official said.</p>
<p>read more: <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/05/trump-admin-weighs-legal-action-over-alleged-chinese-hoarding-of-ppe/">https://nypost.com/2020/04/05/trump-admin-weighs-legal-action-over-alleged-chinese-hoarding-of-ppe/</a></p></div>Pandemic of Neglect: How U.S. health care failed to heed repeated warnings of supply shortageshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/pandemic-of-neglect-how-u-s-health-care-failed-to-heed-repeated-w2020-03-30T11:12:00.000Z2020-03-30T11:12:00.000ZAdmin Deehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminDee<div><p><img class="align-right" src="https://www.samhealth.org/-/media/SHS/Images/002-General-Patient-Education/CO-%20360x300/PPE-Donations-CO-002.jpg" alt="Samaritan Requests Personal Protective Equipment Donations" />As the Bush administration entered its final months in office, its Occupation Safety and Health Administration examined whether hospitals were prepared to protect frontline doctors and nurses in the event of a catastrophic viral pandemic.</p>
<p>The nation was four years removed from the scare of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) coronavirus and two years removed from the creation of a national pandemic plan designed to heighten awareness and preparedness.</p>
<p>What OSHA found was not only alarming, but prescient to the crisis America now endures in 2020.</p>
<p>“It is expected that there will be a worldwide shortage of respirators if and when a pandemic occurs. Employers and employees should not count on obtaining any additional protective equipment not already purchased and stockpiled,” OSHA warned in a report.</p>
<p>OSHA’s warning to stockpile was not an isolated event. A Just the News review found more than a dozen government investigations, congressional reports and pandemic preparedness reviews dating to the 1990s warned that America’s health care system was woefully unprepared for a fast-moving outbreak.</p>
<p>But the pleas of stockpiles, better training, better coordination and more testing of potential remedies fell on the deaf ears of policymakers, congressional overseers and hospital administrators and the chronic inertia in Washington, according to experts who raised the alarm.</p>
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