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.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readStates 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.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
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Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
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”