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OOPS! Negligence and blame?

City Hall didn’t secure 1st order of
COVID-19 supplies for NYC until March 6


New York Post, by Julia Marsh

Original Article

Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed President Trump for the city’s severe shortage of COVID-19 supplies even though City Hall didn’t secure its first order for emergency protective gear until March 6, The Post has learned. Officials with the city’s Office of Emergency Management tried to purchase nearly 200,000 n95 masks on Feb. 7, but weeks later they learned the vendors had already run out.(Snip) “Our city is the epicenter of this outbreak in the United States, and we are lacking supplies because the mayor didn’t notice until two weeks ago?” fumed City Councilman Chaim Deutsch. “We ought to have been prepared for this.
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