How a stockpile of 39 million masks was exposed as fake

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The FBI thwarted a fraudulent deal for 39 million masks needed by healthcare workers fighting coronavirus.

When Gerardo Hernandez was first tested for the coronavirus, he got a false negative and had to be retested. Now, the 39-year-old has spent the last three weeks using a ventilator.

. SEIU 121RN, Southern California’s union of registered nurses, started a petition alleging that hospitals that didn’t take part were “putting bottom-line profits” over safety., marking the latest in a smoke-and-mirrors marketplace for equipment in short supply as healthcare facilities in California and beyond have been preparing for an onslaught of COVID-19 patients.

Brady said the foreign connections asked for a 40% payment upfront and that they planned to give Kaiser details on how to forward that payment at the last moment.

 

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The FBI involved? What?

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What did you expect from a con man realDonaldTrump his goons. Just another way to he has hustled the American people. Epecially Dr. & nurses and DYING AMERICANS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO FILL HIS OWN POCKETS WITH MONEY! MONEY STAINED WITH AMERICAN DEATHS! TrumpLiesAmericansDie

Oh fake news.

I've seen those fake looking type masks at open clinics before this pandemic crisis

Hard to know for sure. Some seem to be making it up.

Well duh

Sure it has... here we with hoax 2.0 or probably now up to 5.0. So pathetic and desperate but get used to POTUS for another 4 more years! CoronaVirusHOAX CoronavirusUSA coronavirus EmptyHospitals hoax democRATS china chinavirus ChinaLiedPeopleDied lockdown

BS!

You people can’t be trusted like the rest of the media. Whatever you state in a headline and anywhere else has to be fully vetted. Your yellow journalism will never be believed by many for as long as they are alive. You are done.

Does elonmusk still live in California? Does BillGates still live in the USA? Someone.. get them on the phone, and ask them to build a factory. Otherwise USA's credibility will be gone for 50 years.

It's like a billionaire vs a hobo.

是否可以由各州自行购买,自行分配,减少流程,最快速利用物资。

Called it at the time, as the story had such a BS ring to it. There was no was some distributor was just sitting on $100M+ (just a guess) of these masks. If they had been, they were incredibly stupid, and/or criminal. I remember all of the TDS tweets at the time...of course

Could you recheck that story please? If it was 39 million masks and the Pittsburgh middleman was paying $3.50 per and SEIU was buying for $5 per that is more than a $9 million profit for the Pittsburgh dude, that is a $58.5 million profit.

Can't read that due to paywall. Maybe folks might read about it here:

“FBI agents...stumbled onto the arrangement while looking into whether they could intercept the masks....The [feds] have been... seizing supplies across the [USA], taking the orders placed by hospitals...” This factoid should have been the headline.

'Experts in the global supply chain say dubious brokers & suppliers have flooded the market with suspect offers, creating an atmosphere of confusion & distrust just as hospitals are trying to stock up on the gear doctors & nurses need to protect themselves from [COVID19].'

Then this is shameful: California governor praises Trump's efforts to help state amid coronavirus crisis

I’m actually shocked by the lack of PPE. I anaesthetised 9 patients in one day last week here in Australia and had new PPE per patient.

Are you stockpiling?

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