Rey Flemings describes procuring 2,000 ventilators from China for New York State in April 2020, only for state officials to turn down the shipment.
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“Only to find out that the state of New York ultimately did not want the ventilators. I had no idea why and still, you know, kind of don't know why. I would note as a footnote that, you know, a year and a half or so ago it came out that the you know, the state of New York had, had kind of falsified the death numbers from the nursing homes and things of that sort. But a very, very interesting experience to go get 2000 ventilators in the middle of COVID and then have the ventilators turned down after doing the work.”
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