Politically driven healthcare supply chain waste during COVID is monumental8

40,000 Initial estimate by the State of New York on the number of ventilators needed to fight COVID.

8,555 Actual number of ventilators purchased by NY state, for $166M along with 1,179 X-Ray machines for $86.4M 2,141 ventilators had been deployed as of September 2022.

200,000 Ventilators ordered by the Trump administration in 2020 for $3B, but only 50% “had the capacity to support the most severely affected patients.”

$633M

Cost of at-home COVID-19 tests from a political contributor to New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

14,000 ventilators were ordered by California, and many were unused, while Canada bought 40,000, half of which have never been unwrapped.

4 Gonzalex, Georgina, “24 hospitals, health systems that launched innovation centers in 2021”, © 2021 by Becker’s Healthcare

5 Cheney, Christopher, “No Plateau in Sight for Ambulatory Surgery Center Growth”, Healthleaders, May 11, 2022.

6 © 2022 Becker’s Healthcare.

7 University of Utah Drug Information Center, Downloaded November 21, 2022.

8 Spector, Joseph, “New York spent $250M on tech to fight COVID that no one uses”, Politico, September 20, 2022.