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‘Swept up by FEMA’: Complicated medical supply system sows confusion (NYT)

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The Trump administration’s new method for distributing medical supplies has led to charges of confiscation.

In Massachusetts, state leaders said they had confirmed a vast order of personal protective equipment for their health workers; then the Trump administration took control of the shipments.

In Kentucky, the head of a hospital system told members of Congress that his broker had pulled out of an agreement to deliver four shipments of desperately needed medical gear after the supplies were commandeered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado thought his state had secured 500 ventilators before they were “swept up by FEMA…”

To read the entire article from The New York Times, click https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/coronavirus-fema-medical-supplies.html