“How many ventilators do we have in the stockpile? How many are we getting in? Where are we sending them and what are our criteria for sending them? That’s what we need to know,” she said. “The administration is holding all of that very close to their chest. They won’t give us any of those details.”
Colorado’s other senator, Democrat Michael Bennet, said in a tweet that FEMA and the Department of Health and Human Services should “get out of the way and stop commandeering supplies.” The episode with ventilators in the state illustrated the “lack of strategy and proper cohesion during this crisis.”
Polis has criticized FEMA for “jumping the line” for gear, but has declined to characterize the process by which the state got the equipment.
“You’re really not going to get my read on it because I’m not going to do political analysis,” he said at a news conference. “I am here to celebrate any ventilators that arrive in our state and of course we’re grateful for 100 ventilators.”
--With assistance from Mario Parker.
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.