Pentagon Has Deployed Many Ventilators From Department of Defense Stockpile: Esper

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks during the daily briefing on the CCP virus in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on April 1, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The Pentagon has deployed many of its 2,000 ventilators amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said.

Many of the ventilators have been deployed with USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy, military hospital ships that were sent to Los Angeles and New York City.