NY Mag: The White House Has Erected a Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE

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Whenever you start to think that the federal government under Donald Trump has hit a moral bottom, it finds a new way to shock and horrify.

Over the last few weeks, it has started to appear as though, in addition to abandoning the states to their own devices in a time of national emergency, the federal government has effectively erected a blockade — like that which the Union used to choke off the supply chains of the Confederacy during the Civil War — to prevent delivery of critical medical equipment to states desperately in need. At the very least, federal authorities have made governors and hospital executives all around the country operate in fear that shipments of necessary supplies will be seized along the way. In a time of pandemic, having evacuated federal responsibility, the White House is functionally waging a war against state leadership and the initiative of local hospitals to secure what they need to provide sufficient treatment.

There Is A White House Blockade Stopping States From Getting Coronavirus PPE

The NEJM has published a horrifying account of a health-care executive trying to evade what appear to be mafia tactics by the federal government.

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