随着冠状病毒的扩散，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周三在白宫每日的COVID-19特遣部队简报会上表示，美国正在建造数千台呼吸机。
特朗普政府官员今天在吹风会上宣布，美国将采取行动加强缉毒行动，打击试图“利用这种流行病威胁美国人生命”的墨西哥卡特尔简报大约半小时后，特朗普将注意力转向了病毒，并向公众保证，官员们正在迅速采取行动解决呼吸机问题。
“我们很快就会有比我们需要的更多的呼吸机，”总统说。“我们现在正在建造数以千计的通风机。建造它们需要一段时间。同样，没有人知道会发生这样的事情。”
特朗普重申正在建造数千座，但没有具体说明具体数字。“我们将很快到达一个我们拥有的远远超过我们所能利用的地步，甚至在我们为未来的灾难储备之后，我们希望这不会发生，”他继续说道。
总统补充说，国内不需要的额外通风机将在世界各地分配给意大利、法国和西班牙等国家。
随着COVID-19继续快速扩散，每天都有数百人丧生，美国正努力为其公民提供足够的防护装备。特朗普说，联邦储备的个人防护设备(PPE)几乎是空的，“因为我们直接把它送到医院。”
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2020年4月1日，在DC首都华盛顿，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在白宫的布雷迪简报室发表关于新型冠状病毒COVID-19的每日简报。
当病人的肺不能通过控制氧气和空气流量来工作时，呼吸机有助于支持病人的呼吸。随着纽约的冠状病毒大流行迅速加剧，州长安德鲁·科莫在对即将到来的短缺的担忧中，请求提供30，000台呼吸机。
全国的医学专家也和科莫一样，担心在不可预测的大流行中会出现呼吸机短缺。这重症医学协会计划多达960，000名国内COVID-19患者在疾病爆发期间可能需要使用呼吸机，但该组织估计，在美国只有大约200，000个这样的设备。他们说，其中大约一半是旧型号，可能对危重患者不可靠。许多呼吸机也仍然用于非冠状病毒患者。
特朗普上周五援引他的国防生产法案权力，命令通用汽车开始生产呼吸机。
周三下午，全球冠状病毒病例数超过90万，至少有4.6万人死亡，19.3万人康复。
美国现在是冠状病毒阳性病例数量最多的国家，超过213，000例，比周二增加了近23，000例。
TRUMP SAYS U.S. IS BUILDING 'MORE VENTILATORS THAN WE NEED… MORE THAN WE CAN USE EVEN'
As the coronavirus spread, President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. is in the process of building thousands of ventilators during the White House's daily COVID-19 task force briefing.
Trump administration officials opened the briefing today by announcing that the U.S. will move to enhance their counternarcotics operation to fight Mexican cartels seeking to "exploit the pandemic to threaten American lives." Roughly half an hour into the briefing, Trump turned his attention to the virus and assured the public that officials are quickly moving to resolve the issue of ventilators.
"We're soon going to have more ventilators than we need," the president said. "We're building thousands of ventilators right now. It takes a period of time to build them. And again, nobody could have known anything like this could happen."
Trump reiterated that thousands were being built, without specifying a figure. "We will fairly soon be at a point where we have far more than we can use even, even after we stockpile for some future catastrophe, which we hope doesn't happen," he continued.
The additional ventilators that are not needed domestically will be distributed around the world to countries such as Italy, France and Spain, the president added.
The U.S. is struggling to source enough protective gear for its citizens as COVID-19 continues to rapidly spread, claiming hundreds of lives each passing day. Trump said the federal stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE) is nearly empty "because we're sending it directly to hospitals."
Newsweek reached out to the White House for comment.
US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House on April 1, 2020, in Washington, DC.
Ventilators help to support a patient's breathing when their lungs cannot do its work by controlling oxygen and air flow. With the coronavirus pandemic rapidly accelerating in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has pleaded for 30,000 ventilators amid fears of an imminent shortage.
Medical experts countrywide also share Cuomo's fears of a ventilator shortage amid the unpredictable pandemic. The Society of Critical Care Medicine projected that as many as 960,000 domestic COVID-19 patients may need to use a ventilator sometime during the outbreak, but the organization estimates only around 200,000 of these devices exist in the U.S. Of those, they say that roughly half are older models that may not be reliable for critically-ill individuals. Many ventilators are also still being used for non-coronavirus patients.
Trump invoked his Defense Production Act powers last Friday to order General Motors to begin production on ventilators.
On Wednesday afternoon, the number of global coronavirus cases surpassed 900,000, with at least 46,000 deaths and 193,000 recoveries.
The U.S. is now the country with the highest number of cases with more than 213,000 testing positive for the coronavirus, an increase of nearly 23,000 from Tuesday.
