WEBVTT 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:05.100 You're looking at the inside of the Strategic National stockpile 00:00:05.100 --> 00:00:09.200 all around the country and Secret locations. 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:14.300 There's an unknown number of giant warehouses like this filled 00:00:14.300 --> 00:00:18.000 with billions of dollars worth of emergency medical supplies. 00:00:19.300 --> 00:00:22.700 And you might think the stockpile could be the solution 00:00:22.700 --> 00:00:26.200 to get these supplies to the front lines of the coronavirus 00:00:26.200 --> 00:00:30.000 pandemic where Healthcare professionals desperately need them, 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.300 but it's not that simple President Trump is facing questions 00:00:34.300 --> 00:00:45.000 about the role of the nation's stockpile depleted on April 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:48.200 8th. The Department of Health and Human Services said that about 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:52.100 90% of the personal protective equipment in a stockpile 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:55.300 has already been distributed to State and local government. 00:00:55.300 --> 00:00:59.900 So what happened why wasn't the stockpile ready for the coronavirus? 00:00:59.900 --> 00:01:03.300 We reached out to spokespeople at the Strategic National 00:01:03.300 --> 00:01:06.700 stockpile and they declined to make anybody available for an interview, 00:01:06.700 --> 00:01:09.700 but they did respond to our questions via email. 00:01:09.700 --> 00:01:12.200 According to a spokesperson. 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.600 The stockpile was designed and resource to address localized 00:01:16.600 --> 00:01:20.600 events like natural disasters such as Hurricanes or terrorist 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:23.900 attacks rather than Nationwide pandemic events. 00:01:23.900 --> 00:01:28.500 It was formed in 1999 under President Bill Clinton. 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:32.900 The series of secret Warehouse is reportedly contain about 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:37.200 8 billion dollars worth of vaccines medicine protective 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.000 gear ventilators and other kinds of medical equipment, 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:41.600 which should come as a relief. 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:45.700 I'm at the coronavirus hospitals across the country are desperate 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:48.400 to find the gowns in the gloves in the face shield. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.400 But while the stockpile exists to distribute items like these 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:56.200 in the time of Crisis, it doesn't appear to have your inventory 00:01:56.200 --> 00:02:02.700 needed to satisfy the volume of requests on eBay with 50 other 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:03.300 states. 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:08.500 Bidding on a ventilator States running low on supplies can make a 00:02:08.500 --> 00:02:11.500 request to the stockpile push then has to be approved 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:15.000 by the Department of Health and Human Services before anything 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.800 can be deployed to rescue people to be resourceful inside 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.700 there States before they come to the federal government 00:02:19.700 --> 00:02:24.200 president senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner said that 00:02:24.200 --> 00:02:26.400 some states are requesting supplies. 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:30.600 They may not need the MoMA one Congressman got a call from his 00:02:30.600 --> 00:02:34.100 local hospital saying I need 250 ventilators and he said well, 00:02:34.100 --> 00:02:35.900 you don't have a covid patient with in four counties. 00:02:35.900 --> 00:02:37.900 Why do you want 250 ventilators? 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:39.700 And he says well, we just want to be safe. 00:02:39.700 --> 00:02:40.800 We're very nervous right now. 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.600 So will you have all over the country is a lot of people are 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:45.900 asking for things that they don't necessarily need at the moment. 00:02:45.900 --> 00:02:51.000 Even when stockpile supplies are proved to be deployed. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:56.400 There are still some issues the 170 ventilators that came from 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:57.200 the national stockpile. 00:02:57.200 --> 00:03:00.700 We're not working like when California governor Gavin Newsom 00:03:00.700 --> 00:03:04.000 said that 170 ventilator ship from the stockpile. 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.400 Shut up damaged and thousands more and storage are reportedly 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:10.700 unfit for use soap. 00:03:10.700 --> 00:03:14.900 How is the stockpile adjusting to these issues if at all to make a 00:03:14.900 --> 00:03:18.700 significant impact on the fight against the covid 19 pandemic 00:03:18.700 --> 00:03:21.500 in a statement to Business Insider the spokesperson 00:03:21.500 --> 00:03:25.800 said because of the finite supply of PPE in the commercial 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.700 supply chain, high transmission areas are prioritized 00:03:29.700 --> 00:03:32.000 and quantities are based on population. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:35.200 The Department of Health and Human Services now is a contract 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:39.200 with GM demanufacture 30,000 ventilators for the national 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:43.900 stockpile April 8th, Federal officials announced that GM will 00:03:43.900 --> 00:03:47.600 replenish the stockpile depleted inventory of ventilators 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:52.900 in a contract worth about $489 million The Cove at 19 crisis 00:03:52.900 --> 00:03:55.300 is the biggest test at the Strategic National stockpile 00:03:55.300 --> 00:03:56.900 his face so far. 00:03:56.900 --> 00:04:00.700 Is it already failed or is it too early to tell his part of 00:04:00.700 --> 00:04:03.900 the coronavirus a package 16 billion? 00:04:04.200 --> 00:04:07.900 Allocated to build up the stockpile with critical supplies 00:04:07.900 --> 00:04:12.600 as it would help on the way from the private sector along with 00:04:12.600 --> 00:04:14.900 billions and new funds from Congress. 00:04:14.900 --> 00:04:18.900 The stockpiles effectiveness in a crisis will continue to be tested.