New York City stockpiled ventilators for a pandemic, only to later auction them off: report

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    State, federal or a large co can stock up on non perishable items to an extent. But who is going to sign off on spending 20-40+ million for vents that are going to just collect dust because they aren't used for daily operations. That’s just the price for 1-2000.
     

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    Seems I recall about a week ago a bunch of big news stories about how Trump wouldn’t send any respirators to NY and he must be the devil.


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    I understand that the ventilators have some lifecycle, but when we sell equipment on big contracts, there is usually some clause about us being able to maintain them for x years. Buying them in 2006, and then going obsolete in 2009 seems like poor planning. However, them not being serviceable or too costly to service after ~10 years doesn't seem too ridiculous - again, just poor planning to have not slowly replaced them.
     

    SQLGeek

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    again, just poor planning to have not slowly replaced them.

    Between this and the expiring N95s both sound like poor inventory and logistical management. Seems pretty basic to me. If you're worried about stocks expiring (N95s expire, who knew?), working out a distribution rotation system with the local hospitals, shop classes, etc etc only makes sense.
     

    lightflyer1

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    But faulted the Federal government for the same thing as they experienced. Very expensive to buy and maintain over any time frame. I am sure the Federal government doesn't want to buy and maintain 50k of these machines either, not to mention masks.
     
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