I'm no fan of Kushner, but this article implies Kushner shouldn't have produced thousands of intubators for America and the world because they end up killing most patients. Kushner was given a very important job by Trump - make a shitload of intubators to save the world. BigPharma, CDC, NIH, WHO Birx and Fauci led the Medical Industry to provide only the approved treatments as recommended by themselves. The US and hundreds of countries followed their lead. MSM beat the drums to hyperventilate the pandemic panic and public outcry for cures. Ventilators were a last ditch effort to prevent death in the most severe cases of the ~0.02% of the population dying from covid19.
Keep in mind hospitals were scrapping or off-site storing most of their new ventilators provided years ago prior to the pandemic. IIRC, they were provided by Govt in the case of a pandemic in the early-mid 2010s. Hospitals don't generally use a lot of ventilators. This extras were usually stored off-site. By the time covid19 arrived, most hospitals reported they had an inadequate number of ventilators to meet anticipated demand. Large numbers were later found warehoused in "long forgotten" storage buildings. Like someone had planned a dramatic ventilator shortage during a future pandemic, and these warehouses full of ventilators would be sold at many times more their original value.
The author seems to think Kushner should have been smarter than the Govt approved Covid19 Doctors, Biologists and health industry ... to not produc more ventilators than were needed to meet demand (based on CDC,NIH, WHO projections). IIRC, no hospital was short of ventilators, Kushner's team reallocated extra ventilators between facilities to satisfy demand as the demand grew and new production was coming on line. Kushner's team juggled a lot - redistribution, designating potential factories, collaberation, tooling up factories, sharing technology how to make them, fine project planning and management. How often does Govt fix a problem (lack of ventilators) that quick. Had there been a real problem, as the left tried to imply early in the plandemic, ventilators were immediately found, reallocated to those demanding them. Eventually they stopped asking because they couldn't outpace Kushner's ability to meet their demand, stifling their attempts to create a narrative of Trump's failing to provide ventilators and people die.
I detect much resentment interjected by the author. I'm no fan of Ivanka's and Jarod's politics, but I think he did an admirable job for Trump when assigned this wartime effort task. He accomplished all of the goals and the issue didn't become a political weapon to bludgeon Trump's support in the early days of the covid19 pandemonium.
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