While the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 1 urged countries to stockpile respiratory ventilators, a major treatment option available for COVID-19 infection, the Trump administration said the United States has a stockpile to deal with the crisis.
“In the U.S., we are fortunate to have a Strategic National Stockpile which has maintained a ventilator stockpile since 2001. Additional ventilators were already scheduled to be delivered to SNS this year,” a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told The Epoch Times on March 2.
