BREAKING CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: General Motors, the first company to be contracted for in the Defense Production Act won’t deliver ventilators until August. For $500 million.

We will have 10s of thousands of ventilators before then, many coming in May & June.
6000 are promised by June. They will all be sent right to the Strategic National Stockpile.

DPA has contracted for a total of 43,000 ventilators by year end. 2/
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