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Few people are seen at a metro Red Square is seen empty after preventive measures against the coronavirus are taken in Moscow, Russia on March 30, 2020. (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump, Cuomo and the mystery of the missing masks

President Trump on Sunday speculated that New York State hospitals are running short of respirator masks to protect doctors and nurses from the coronavirus because supplies are being stolen.
“How do you go from 10 to 20 [thousand masks per week] to 300,000? Ten [thousand] to 20,000 masks, to 300,000” Trump said at a briefing by the coronavirus task force in the Rose Garden. “Something is going on, and you ought to look into it as reporters. Are they going out the back door?”
Trump did not elaborate on what gave rise to his suspicion.
At a press briefing in New York Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was asked to respond to Trump’s comments.
“I don’t know what that means,” Cuomo said. “I don’t know what he’s trying to say. If he wants to make an accusation, then let him make an accusation.”
But earlier this month, Cuomo himself said that people were stealing face masks and other medical equipment from area hospitals.
“Not just people taking a couple or three, I mean just actual thefts of those products,” Cuomo said. “I’ve asked the state police to do an investigation, look at places that are selling masks, medical equipment, protective wear, feeding the anxiety.”
Hospital officials in Boston and elsewhere have reported similar thefts.


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