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All because of the tweet: New York spent $ 69 million on ventilation systems that it never received

Silicon Valley engineer without any medical experience who never supplied fans. However, the New York authorities, on the recommendation of the White House, entered into a contract with him. The state never received the promised fans, and the contract with the businessman was soon terminated. The White House, meanwhile, declares that they know nothing about this contract. The incident wrote in detail about the incident. BuzzFeed News.

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What happened

On March 27, emergency rooms in New York and across the country began to fill in patients with coronavirus infection who had breathing problems. U.S. President Donald Trump posted a post on Twitter urging Ford and General Motors to begin production of ventilators immediately.

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One of the thousands of responses included: “We can supply ICU ventilators, invasive and non-invasive. Have someone contact me urgently." Its author was Yaron Oren-Pines, a Silicon Valley electrical engineer with no medical background and 75 Twitter followers.

However, three days later, New York State paid Oren Pines $ 69,1 million. Payment was made for 1450 fans at a price of $ 47 for one unit, which is at least three times their standard retail price.

Not a single fan was ever provided to New York State.

A state spokesman said New York has contracted with Oren Pines on the direct recommendation of the White House coronavirus task force.

Termination of the contract

A month later, New York terminated Oren-Pines' contract. Now the state is trying to get back all the money it paid to the Silicon Valley electrical engineer. Officials declined to say how much money the state was able to recover. "We are negotiating the few remaining issues," administration spokeswoman Heather Groll said.

Oren Pines himself during a telephone conversation said that neither he nor his company give any comments on this subject, and then hung up. He did not respond to subsequent text messages.

The money he received on March 30 was the largest lump sum payment made by the New York Department of Health at the behest of Governor Andrew Cuomo last month. The funds were used to purchase the necessary medical equipment as soon as possible for delivery to hospitals.

hopeless situation

The case demonstrates how fear of overcrowded hospitals across the country, especially in New York, has prompted policymakers to turn to untested and sometimes unqualified providers. “We had no choice but to look under every stone to find ventilators and other necessary equipment,” said Rich Azzopardi, a senior adviser to Cuomo, describing the search for critical medical equipment for New York.

He added that staff was able to meet most of their needs and is currently reviewing some contracts, while canceling others.

As in most states, New York procurement rules prohibit payment for goods or services until an order is completed. But last month, Cuomo suspended these rules to meet the urgent need for fans, N95 masks, bathrobes, and other personal protective equipment. A team of 25 people is now working overtime to check potential suppliers. In some cases, she began to pay for orders before they were completed.

Between March 19 and April 27, the Health Department cut 77 checks of $1 million or more for medical supplies, totaling nearly $735 million. Some of the recipients are established health care providers such as Henry Schein Inc. is an American distributor of medical products and services with annual revenues of $10 billion, present in 32 countries.

But the vast majority of payments were made by various companies, many of which have virtually no experience in medicine. Among them are fashionable clothing brands, Chinese importers of iron ore and tools, a company selling hair and wrinkle removers, and a number of private joint-stock and investment companies.

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