Trump Again Accuses Health Care Workers Of Squandering Masks
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For the second day in a row, US President Donald Trump pushed the theory that health care workers were responsible for a shortage of protective masks during the coronavirus pandemic.
The president repeated the implication in his Monday press briefing when a reporter began to ask him about remarks he made Sunday that masks may be “going out the back door.” Trump cut off the reporter, saying a “tremendous power in the business,” seemingly a supplier of masks, had backed up his idea.
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“He said that a New York hospital, for a long period of time, he was giving 10,000, maybe maximum 20,000 masks over a short time, and all of a sudden he’s giving 300,000,” Trump said of the number of masks that lawmakers and public health officials are calling for.
“And I said, ‘No matter how bad this is, could that be possible?’ He said no. So there’s only a couple of things that could happen. Is it going out the back door?” Trump asked, though he never offered another explanation.
There is zero evidence that such a thing is widely happening, and Trump offered no proof of this theory, which he first pushed at his press briefing on Sunday.
In reality, hospitals and medical professionals have long warned that the national stockpile of medical supplies would be depleted by the pandemic if drastic action wasn’t taken to produce more. The World Health Organization said weeks ago that...
