Feds seize coronavirus test kit materials bound for Bellingham hospital and Northwest

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A delivery of test kit materials that would have allowed Bellingham’s St. Joseph hospital and other PeaceHealth medical facilities in the Northwest to run COVID-19 tests quicker were seized and diverted by the federal government to the East Coast, PeaceHealth reports.

The Los Angeles Times first reported about the federal government quietly seizing orders for medical supplies made by hospitals in a story Tuesday, April 7. Those seizures came despite President Trump directing states and hospitals to secure what supplies they could to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

The Times reported that PeaceHealth, which has 10 hospitals in Washington, Oregon and Alaska including St. Joseph hospital in Bellingham, was among those impacted.

““It’s incredibly frustrating,” PeaceHealth Chief Operating Officer Richard DeCarlo told the Times. “We had put wheels in motion with testing and protective equipment to allow us to secure and protect our staff and our patients.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/feds-seize-coronavirus-test-kit-materials-bound-for-bellingham-hospital-and-northwest/ar-BB12ovoC?ocid=hplocalnews

[gibraltar72]

1. This is the weapon he's gonna use to bludgeon states to reopen business.

Bank on it. Nice state you got there be ashamed if something happened to it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. This is crazy and evil - but what else can we expect from Trump's government?

My niece works in procurement for a large hospital and she is really stressed out about getting supplies. I don't know if she's had anything stolen by the feds yet - we aren't under the kind of emergency (yet?) that some other cities are dealing with, but they are nevertheless really struggling to get the things they need.

[BComplex]

5. They need to start ordering and delivering supplies through third party secret

players in order to actually secure what they need and keep it from the trump government, who is intending to kill as many of the democrats in the country as humanly possible.

[dem4decades]

3. Is this payback for Inslee criticizing Trump in the Post today?

[FuzzyRabbit]

15. Payback for the state going for Hillary in 2016

and electing a Democratic governor.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. The last time the state voted GOP in the presidential race was 1984

The last time we elected a Republican governor was 1980.

[Squinch]

4. They REALLY do not want the actual numbers to get out, do they?

[Marie Marie]

13. Bingo!

[ffr]

6. Speechless

[liberalmuse]

7. So he's making governors do his job, then taking the credit.

Along with the supplies. All he had to do was get his shit together and do his job. This is heinous.

[Lonestarblue]

8. Since hospitals are ordering directly from suppliers, how does FEMA know?

Have suppliers been ordered by Trump to let FEMA know which ones are going to Democratic states so FEMA can swoop in and take them? And what is FEMA doing with all these supplies if governors re to get their own? Trump’s back channel black market?

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. He's hijacking the supplies

and selling them to his buddies who are selling them back to the states cities, etc.
This includes the ones he has hijacked from France, Germany, UK, and Canada. and Malaysia, last I heard.

He has control over the stuff, and you have to lick his ass and pay him his asking price in order to get it back.
The impeachment Senate trial gave him a free card, he knows he has a free hand now, esp. during the virus disaster. One thing we all know about trump is he is a master opportunist, and Disaster Capitalism is 2nd nature to him.

[scarletwoman]

9. "...diverted by the federal government to the East Coast" - how do we know?

For all we know, it's being diverted to Jared Kushner's "stockpile" - the one he says is "ours not the states'."

States need to do what Massachusetts is doing, call out their National Guard to pick up their shipments: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142465760

[jalan48]

10. Oregon and Washington are solid blue states. They will not go for Trump in November. Are

these test kits getting funneled to toss-up states to make Trump look good?

[NotHardly]

11. Criminal!! These f**kers need to be stopped, yeah, our own Feds need to be stopped

their actions are endangering lives of citizens and others and only done because we are BLUE

[TryLogic]

12. Keeping the numbers secret sounds likely. Helping selected states seems likely.

[sakabatou]

14. Just where are the seized goods going?

[moonseller66]

16. Not Where! But to WHOM!

There are more Well-to-Doers and their families and friends that have to be protected. They are more important than us, donchano?

Plus Trump needs to make sure all the Republican Politicians (loyal to him) and THEIR families and friends and CEOs and upper level management et al. and especially his donors and THEIR families and friends are sure to have testing and every item needed to make sure THEY are safe!

And people wonder WHY these things are being commandeered all of a sudden with NO explanation?

[cstanleytech]

17. Seizing and sending them to states that supported Trump probably.