California sends 500 ventilators back to national stockpile

OAKLAND — California is loaning 500 ventilators to states like New York where the coronavirus is exacting a deeper toll, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday.

"California is stepping up to assist our fellow People in New York and throughout the country who are being impacted the hardest proper now by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Newsom stated in a assertion.

The act of generosity completes a bi-coastal assist package deal after each Washington and Oregon lent medical supplies to New York, which is battling the nation's worst outbreak. Ventilators from California will movement into the Strategic Nationwide Stockpile. Oregon announced Saturday it was sending 140 ventilators to New York, whereas Washington stated Sunday it was returning more than 400 of the machines.

"In occasions of disaster, it’s more essential than ever we're the UNITED States of America," Newsom stated Monday morning on Twitter. "CA is answering the call for People in NY and throughout the country, loaning 500 state-owned ventilators to those in need. I know, if the tables have been turned, different states can be there for us."

Newsom stated this weekend that California would "completely, unequivocally" help to other states if attainable. Some California health officers have gained more confidence in current days that the state's an infection curve is flattening, notably within the San Francisco Bay Area, which took the nation's earliest shelter-in-place actions.

But Newsom cautioned that his own state is equipping for a surge anticipated to climax within the coming weeks.

“To the extent we now have the assets, resourceful people together with individuals, not simply PPE, we might contemplate doing that," Newsom stated Saturday. "But let me just make this clear: we are getting ready for a state of affairs the place we'd like 50,000 beds, we'd like a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of line gadgets of PPE, we are working day and night time to seek out new ventilators."

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