Gov @GovPritzker confirms that the federal ‘Air Bridge’ flights from China, organized by the White House taskforce, are bringing PPE back from China which are then turned over to private companies. The states then have to bid against each other to purchase from those companies.

2/ this is largely what the admiral working with fema told us at the April 2nd White House presser, as I explain here. What was left unclear was whether the states had to bid to those distributors or whether the sales were directed by fema in some way. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-need-to-look-at-this

3/ Here is the antitrust waiver five of the air bridge distributor companies got on Saturday from DOJ antitrust division. https://www.justice.gov/atr/page/file/1266511/download