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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    General Electric,Tesla commit to making ventilators to fight COVID-19. Will states get them?

    States nationwide are in bidding wars over essential medical supplies to fight COVID-19, including ventilators.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Apr 1, 2020 • 1 min read

    States nationwide are in bidding wars over essential medical supplies to fight COVID-19, including ventilators. Cities like New York, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, are competing against not only one another, but against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). There’s also confusion between the federal government and the private sector about who’s making ventilators, how many, and where they’re going.

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    1. 0:00General Electric,Tesla commit to making ventilators to fight COVID-19. Will states get them?You’re reading this
    2. 8:55Combined with social distancing and handwashing, a cloth mask can be better than no mask during COVID-19
    3. 14:08When ‘Safer at Home’ is not safe: The rise of domestic violence and vulnerability of children amid coronavirus
    4. 24:24Parallels and differences between COVID-19 and 1918 Spanish flu
    5. 34:53Self-isolate with Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ series about real-life criminal tiger breeder
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Jonathan Cohn

      Senior National Correspondent at Huffington Post, where he writes about health care politics and policy; author of “The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage”

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    Domestic violence during COVID-19
    1. 0:00General Electric,Tesla commit to making ventilators to fight COVID-19. Will states get them?You’re reading this
    2. 8:55Combined with social distancing and handwashing, a cloth mask can be better than no mask during COVID-19
    3. 14:08When ‘Safer at Home’ is not safe: The rise of domestic violence and vulnerability of children amid coronavirus
    4. 24:24Parallels and differences between COVID-19 and 1918 Spanish flu
    5. 34:53Self-isolate with Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ series about real-life criminal tiger breeder
    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand