A Company Run by a White House “Volunteer” With No Experience in Medical Supplies Got $2.4 Million From the Feds for Medical Supplies — ProPublica

A $2.4 million deal to supply the Bureau of Prisons with surgical gowns was the second multimillion dollar contract for coronavirus supplies that went to somebody who did work for the White House but had little relevant experience.
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-company-run-by-a-white-house-volunteer-with-no-experience-in-medical-supplies-got-2.4-million-from-the-feds-for-medical-supplies

Survey shows resources for COVID-19 diagnostic testing still limited months later - ABC News

As states begin to loosen COVID-19 restrictions and businesses and schools consider reopening, testing is repeatedly cited as a key component in mitigating risk and returning to a new normal. Many labs in the United States are still reporting a shortage of the supplies and personal protective equipment needed to test patients for COVID-19, according to an ongoing survey conducted by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry. Without these resources, experts say labs across the country are unable to meet the growing demands and provide critical results for making decisions about isolation and contact tracing.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/survey-shows-resources-covid-19-diagnostic-testing-limited/story

The Trump Administration Paid Millions for Test Tubes — and Got Unusable Mini Soda Bottles — ProPublica

The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. And they may be contaminated anyway.....
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-trump-administration-paid-millions-for-test-tubes-and-got-unusable-mini-soda-bottles

Exclusive: US has three months to rebuild medical supplies stockpile, Obama administration scientists warn

Nine top scientists who advised Barack Obama in the White House are warning that the US has just three months to rebuild its national stockpile of emergency medical supplies or risk further drastic shortages of testing kits and protective gear should coronavirus strike again in the fall. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/exclusive-obama-us-national-stockpile-trump-coronavirus

White House’s pandemic relief effort Project Airbridge is swathed in secrecy and exaggerations - The Washington Post

N95 masks account for less than 0.1 percent of the "nearly 1 billion pieces" of protective equipment delivered through Project Airbridge, while 90 percent were disposable gloves.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/white-house-pandemic-supply-project-swathed-in-secrecy-and-exaggerations/2020/05/08/9c77efb2-8d52-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

Kushner COVID-19 team prioritized PPE bids from Trump associates: NYT - Business Insider

When the US coronavirus outbreak began, there were concerns about healthcare workers getting the protective gear they needed. So the senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, formed a group of volunteers to sort through hundreds of leads on personal protective equipment and funnel the most promising ones to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is in charge of distributing supplies to states and medical workers.

But according to a new report by The New York Times, the volunteers were in fact prioritizing tips from close Trump associates, resulting in multiple botched deals.....
https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-coronavirus-task-force-prioritized-ppe-trump-associates-nyt-2020-5

'Little or no transparency': Warren wants data on White House medical supply program - ABC News

Two Senate Democrats are now probing 'Project Airbridge,' the Trump administration program aimed at getting medical supplies to hospitals amid the pandemic, warning the effort is too opaque. While the White House has touted the Jared Kushner-backed program as an innovative public-private partnership designed to clear logistical logjams and bureaucratic red tape, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., are worried that the administration is not doing enough to facilitate the supply of personal protective equipment to communities battling the coronavirus.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transparency-warren-data-white-house-medical-supply-program/story

When do we call it treason? Trump is blockading lifesaving equipment from reaching states

While Donald Trump is attacking governors for trying to save lives by keeping coronavirus shutdowns in place, he's also actively working to endanger healthcare workers by taking hostage the equipment they need to do their jobs safely. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/4/20/1938924/-When-do-we-call-it-treason-Trump-is-blockading-life-saving-equipment-from-reaching-states

Trump says government will step up coronavirus testing efforts, after governors blast federal inaction - The Washington Post

Hours earlier, governors from both parties complained equipment was in short supply.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/governors-plead-for-federal-help-on-coronavirus-testing-contradicting-trumps-claims-that-testing-is-widely-available/2020/04/19/39eb4238-8260-11ea-878a-86477a724bdb_story.html

A 'War' For Medical Supplies: States Say FEMA Wins By Poaching Orders : NPR

As the number of coronavirus cases surged in Massachusetts, nurses at a hospital in Milford were desperate. They held up cardboard signs outside the hospital asking for donations of protective gear to wear while treating infected patients. William Touhey Jr. thought he could help. Touhey is the fire chief and emergency management director in this small town outside of Boston. He did some legwork, and placed an order for 30,000 protective gowns from overseas. "We were hearing good things that it was coming," Touhey said. Then he got a phone call from the distributor last week. ....
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/15/835308133/governors-say-fema-is-outbidding-redirecting-or-poaching-their-medical-supply-or

‘Chaos at the highest levels’: Governors seethe as Trump hinders their ability to buy COVID-19 supplies – Raw Story

President Donald Trump has pushed responsibility for buying medical supplies onto individual governors — but these governors say that the president’s actions are hindering their ability to buy badly needed equipment. Politico reports that governors still say that they are engaging in destructive bidding wars for supplies — and are even having supplies that they do order scooped up by the federal government without explanation.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/chaos-at-the-highest-levels-governors-seethe-as-trump-hinders-their-ability-to-buy-covid-19-supplies/

Gov. Hogan pushes back on claim states in 'good shape' for coronavirus response - ABC News

The Maryland governor was interviewed on ABC's "This Week."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gov-hogan-pushes-back-claim-states-good-shape/story?id=70103611

Why the hell is the federal government stealing critical medical supplies from hospitals?

Donald Trump has refused to use the federal government to centralize the supply chain for states and hospitals desperate to access medical supplies they need to combat the coronavirus. "We're not a shipping clerk," Trump told governors last month. Instead, Trump told them to fend for themselves, and not much has changed since then. Last week, the guy running point on medical supply logistics for FEMA reinforced Trump’s original position. "I'm not here to disrupt a supply chain," Rear Adm. John Polowczyk told White House reporters, defending the fact that the federal government was pushing medical products out into the private sector to be bid upon rather than sending them directly to the states and hospitals that urgently needed them.

If that wasn’t infuriating enough, we now know that the federal government is actually stealing critical supplies from the very hospitals Trump abandoned. The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that federal government has been "quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get what they need to deal with the coronavirus pandemic."
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/4/9/1935988/-Why-the-hell-is-the-federal-government-stealing-critical-medical-supplies-from-hospitals

As Trump’s failures mount, one governor sounds an ominous warning - The Washington Post

Some unsettling new details about the urgent problems we face....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/09/trumps-failures-mount-one-governor-sounds-an-ominous-warning/

Trump’s latest depraved display could lead to more deaths - The Washington Post

Trump's new effort to spin away his failures poses a genuine threat to the country....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/07/trumps-latest-depraved-display-could-lead-more-deaths/

Trump Rages Over Watchdog Report on ‘Severe’ Hospital Shortages

The president attacked the U.S. Health and Human Services principal deputy inspector general, Christi Grimm, suggesting she was biased.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rages-over-watchdog-report-on-severe-hospital-shortages

Trump says IG report finding hospital shortages is 'just wrong' | TheHill

President Trump claimed that an inspector general report finding "severe" shortages of supplies at hospitals to fight the novel coronavirus is "just wrong." Trump did not provide evidence for why the conclusions of the 34-page report are wrong.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/491454-trump-says-ig-report-finding-hospital-shortages-is-just-wrong

The Trump administration just changed its description of the national stockpile to jibe with Jared Kushner’s controversial claim - The Washington Post

Kushner stepped forward Thursday to offer a curious claim about the national stockpile. The next day, official language on the government's website was altered.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/03/jared-kushner-stands-trump-proceeds-offer-very-trumpian-claim-about-stockpiles/

Jared Kushner Ripped For Saying 'Our Stockpile' Isn't Meant For States To Use | HuffPost

Jared Kushner, White House adviser and son-in-law to President Donald Trump, declared on Thursday that the stockpiles of much-needed supplies governors were requesting to help with the coronavirus pandemic weren’t actually meant for the states. “The notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile,” Kushner said. “It’s not supposed to be states’ stockpiles that they then use.” ...
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-stockpile_n_5e86dca8c5b6a949183425ca

Trump Says He’s Doing a Hell of a Job Getting Medical Supplies. Reality Says Otherwise.

The president tweeted Friday morning that he was embracing authority to force companies to ramp up supply chains. Except, it’s not clear he’s doing so.
https://thedailybeast.com/trump-says-hes-doing-a-hell-of-a-job-getting-medical-supplies-reality-says-otherwise