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TomCADem

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2. No evidence for Trump's suggestion that masks are 'going out the back door' of New York hospitals
Sun May 10, 2020, 01:20 PM
May 2020

Of course, Trump has accused healthcare workers of being thieves to hide his administration's incompetence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/no-evidence-trump-s-suggestion-masks-are-going-out-back-n1172251

President Donald Trump again questioned the rate at which a hospital in New York is using medical supplies, suggesting that theft was why the unnamed facility needs 300,000 masks a week.

The president claimed Monday that a distributor told him that a New York hospital's mask purchases were far too high to reflect actual need.

"There's only a couple of things that could happen — is it going out the back door? And I've reported it to the city and let the city take a look at it. But when you go to 10,000 masks to 300,000 masks... there's something going on," Trump said during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House.

He made the same claim on Sunday, too.

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