Trump and Meadows joked about Covid on plane after Biden debate, book says

[Kid Berwyn]

10. Oh, he more than deserves two scoops of credit.

Trump Likely Killed Healthcare Workers By Siphoning Off Billions In PPE Funds

Jason Easley
Politicus, March 2, 2021

The Trump administration secretly moved ten billion federal dollars that were supposed to go to hospitals for PPE into vaccine development and likely killed hospital workers.

STAT reported:

The Trump administration quietly took around $10 billion from a fund meant to help hospitals and health care providers affected by Covid-19 and used the money to bankroll Operation Warp Speed contracts, four former Trump administration officials told STAT.

“ Hospitals in need of the funding would be outraged to know that some of the money was siphoned off, even for important uses, because Congress was clear that this money was for providers and clinicians,” said Chip Kahn, CEO of the Federation of American Hospitals.

The Trump administration could have easily gotten the money from Congress for vaccine development, but they intentionally chose to take PPE away from hospitals because they were trying to rush vaccine development so that Trump could win reelection while minimizing the pandemic itself.

Source: https://www.politicususa.com/2021/03/02/trump-hospitals-ppe-funds.html

The writer also asks how many healthcare workers have died in the COVID-19 pandemic?



2,900 per KHN and The Guardian

https://khn.org/news/article/more-than-2900-health-care-workers-died-this-year-and-the-government-barely-kept-track/

Better call Jared as the next witness.