America's Medical Supply Crisis (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- When the coronavirus hit, why were countless Americans left unprotected amid a desperate shortage of PPE and other critical medical equipment?
FRONTLINE, The Associated Press and the Global Reporting Centre investigate.
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In the wake of President Donald Trump’s COVID-positive diagnosis, and as cases spike in parts of the country, “America’s Medical Supply Crisis” examines why the United States was left vulnerable to key equipment shortages - and why problems persist, months into the coronavirus crisis.
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No thanks. What a disgusting, morally bankrupt human being.
Type of guy to start yelling at thanksgiving dinner & make the kids cry
Thank you, Frontline, for preserving journalism.
Once again, wonderful reporting. Excellent program. Thank you for keeping us informed.
😂😂🤣
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed. Guess which category you fall into. (From someone with an Associate's in Nursing in the U.S.)
@@PreciousBoxer
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@@lvandervest8818 I' have no choice but to laugh too, unless crying is a realistic option.
@@PreciousBoxer That was a typo
This has got me so emotional. I remember when the facility I worked at first got hit with COVID-19. It was within week 2 we were already given substandard, Chinese KN95, yet administration had proper Niosh approved N95's. Sure enough, 1 after another more and more of my nurses started getting sick...
I eventually left and helped Texas when they had a spike. The COVID unit I was assigned to were implementing amazing treatments but did not foresee the dangers of high infectious probability, as a result ALL of the staff including non-patient care staff members were infected.
With our sacrifice and resilience, healthcare providers will go down in history as essential in keeping the country safe and will be held in the same important and respectable regard as the military.
My Grandmother used to say "cheap is expensive"... We want cheap China products so we almost, have no manufacturing in USA...
Your grandmother was right. I believe if we started tomorrow to bring a self-sufficient model of manufacturing back to America it would take us thirty years of effort and sacrifice to do so.
It’s like when I got my tattoo removed. It took 30 minutes to ink it and cost $100 (in 1990). Having my tattoo lasered off in the early aughts cost me a couple of thousand dollars and hours of pain.
It just won't happen under a global capitalist system. Businesses will always go to where labor and materials are the cheapest.
Globalization is just the future of trade and taking advantage of the economy of scale. If it wasn't China, it was going to be another country. You can't stop it. The only way to change it, is it become humble and work harder than the Chinese for the same exact wage. If you can do that you can have your manufacturing back. Otherwise, raising tarrifs will just cost the consumers more money for the same product
Until everyone stops to only talk about profit, nothing will change. It's never been about saving people. It's about making money.
Exactly... profit is selfish an short sided, benefits a few. The sence of nation and where in it together from the 1900s has been lost. Balkinization is next.
@Keith Steward PRASIDENT TROMP LIKES PROFIT TROMPT TROMP BLOOD FOR TROMP
TRUE! Capitalism will always seek the cheapest option for labor and materials.
I love Frontline ♥, who's that man doing the narration? Golden voice
Imagine sending soldiers to war without any ammunition
The whole reason that the M16 was prone to jamming and was an awful rifle in Vietnam was because the DOD decided to remove the cleaning kit from being standard issue and not order it so that they could save $1 per soldier. That jamming led to Americans lives being lost. American history repeats itself yet again. It’s greed, pure and simple
Obarry!
Thank you pbs for straight forward investigative reporting, finally some answers. So much info news outlets telling us nothing.
A week ago, for the first time in 9 months, I found alcohol wipes in my local grocery (Clayton, NC). Imagine my surprise when I noticed the manufacture date was January 2020! Can someone tell me where in Hail Columbia these things have been all these months?
Right!! I’m right there with you. We bought bulk bleach & alcohol to make our own supplies back in Jan-March for work (high exposure risk field). Now supplies are available again, all the manufacturer’s dates are the same - Dec ‘19-March 2020.
You send the soldiers to the battle with enough equipments but nurses don't. What a shame 😔 cut 1% out 600 billion military spending and do the right thing
"sending the soldiers to the battle with enough equipment ..." ? NOT really! Otherwise, there would not have been so many Vietnam War veterans came down with "medical conditions" originating from Agent Orange.
ok whenever I hear Mr Will Lyman's voice I automatically tune in and pay attention! His voice is awesome and always pungent for the point! Thank you Frontline!
I agree. Been watching Frontline since I was a kid. And every time I hear that voice I feel like I’m listening to the voice of reason.
Are you up after praying on your magic carpet?? ABDULREHMAN
We have a leadership supply crisis.
I was about to do something important, then a PBS video came out
Picking your nose is really not that important.
Informing yourself is not important?
Frontline is one of the best investigatve news programs on T.V. If more people would have watched the two parter on Clinton and Trump in 2016, the election might have turned out differently. Get your butts off Social Media folks, and watch something that forces you to think. As I'm writing this on UTube.
@@lyndakoers1389 why is that we are not holding past president accountable for having 8 years to restock and not doing it...yet the current president did not get it do in 3 years..... and take the word of people who now advise the Biden campaign who in 47 years has not fixed another
@@lyndakoers1389 PBS actually has an unhealthy bias, never base ur positions on one outlet
Thank you, FRONTLINE, for this excellent documentary.
Why do it right yourself when you can contract it out to a private party who will cut corners, deliver a substandard product, or just take the money and run?
“It’s the exact other way” “that’s counterfactual” “BS” “Unfounded” so many people in this piece who are just denying and lying through their teeth. Disgusting, just buck up and take some responsibility.
Why did the stockpile remain depleted? Ask the republican controlled house and senate. Period
Correct! They blame Obama when in fact he proposed restocking and production of medical supplies in US instead of abroad as part of the Pandemic plan. But Republicans rejected the budget.
Ummm, you mean democrat controlled congress
@@1catmac Nope, back when President Obama wanted to restock the stockpile the republicans had control over the house and the senate and they would not allow the funding. Do just a tiny bit of research before making blind comments.
I see Peter Navarro passed the Trump school of diversion class.
He learned from the master.
Fun Fact: Peter Navarro is considered to be an idiot around UC Irvine.....and has now earned that same reputation on the World Stage.
God...I really really think we live in a corrupt, third world country...I REALLY DO!!!!
History proves every empire falls. It’s our turn unless we all get involved. Scary times!
Wow, what an eye opener! As a front-line worker here in the ER, H1N1 was the wake up call that was completely ignored.
That's what happens when you build a system on profit. It's not profitable to stockpile materials one might need in case of a crisis....
Our brilliant politicians and fat governor in Hawaii slashed public healthcare and Medicaid to bare bones before the pandemic.
@Mark989 My wife and my sister work in one of the biggest doctor's offices in town. My wife manages a branch. My sister manages the insurance part. The system was not set up for covid. They didn't have the necessary ppe stored and ready....they didn't have a lot of things that should have been in place...mostly because there is no profit in doing that. But the system adapted basically sufficiently to deal with what we have now as long as cases don't creep up too much.
@Mark989 Your link doesn't appear to be working...I'd love to read it.
But if you wont back up your assertion then it remains simply that...seeing that alot from the right these days.
They could have rotated old stock and recouped money. It's gonna get used on a steady basis, and stimulate economic growth. They failed with poor management and poor insight.
It was a bad idea to have one of Trump's lackeys on the show when he is lying.
as a nurse thankyou for making this
shows you why Trump wanted to move medical supplies and drug manufacturing back to the US. Prior administrations allowed all of this industry to leave for foreign shores.
He made states battle for supplies. Early Feb Pompeo posted as they shipped China our supplies on Twitter. Its hogwash and the excuses are getting old. I am not a defender of Obama but the bullshittery is beyond at this point. We should have pandemic protection 24 damn 7! I don't care whose fault it is anymore. Seriously.
Realjayrome except that Trump had congress on his side in the beginning and could’ve pushed through funding and didn’t.… Obama also had to often face a hostile Congress so even if he had proposed any funding it would’ve been immediately blocked and shot down.
I heard states were bidding against other states for ppe on ebay. Negligence period.
The administration was selling the stockpile to the highest bidder. Lined their pockets.
It's embarrassingly sad that our country wasn't prepared for this pandemic. And still isn't prepared seeing that health care workers still aren't getting the ppe needed to do their jobs. God bless all our health care workers and essential laborers that keep our country going. Navarro definitely knows we know he was doing something shady with that Philips contract. I wonder how much he and the Trump organization that got from that $646,000,000.
The answer to 9 out of 10 questions is $$$$$.
At my job, nursing staff are issued two N95 masks to be used again and again. Each mask worn repeatedly for up to ten work shifts. We do have an oven on-site for irradiating masks between shifts, at which time we switch out one mask for the other. However, a single mask must suffice to get us through the weekend, as nobody is on hand to irradiate masks on weekends. In my view, the situation hardly reflects an adequate supply of PPE, but what do I know? I'm only a healthcare worker. I'm neither the head of a FEMA supply chain task force, nor a United States president eager to downplay an epidemic.
Thank you for your service and sharing your story.
Navaro 😂 Nothing speaks stronger to ineptitude than a man who loses his composure. Nice work.
Why not give the health care workers the special Trump Quarantini cocktail and provide them a chance to survive? This is a tragedy. No PPE and then no Walter Reed Covidtini!
Only the King has access to those special treatment. Nothing for us suckers.
@Rusty Shackleford Hasn't passed trials, yet given to the President.
That's not how preforming trials work
So we will use our president as a guinea pig? Now that’s brilliant!
Rusty Shackleford your just another Covid it like the other 1/3 of the ignoramuses who support the Covid it at the helm. Why are you using a meme of a famous black man who would not give you the time of day? Insult to Quentin Tarentino
This just shows how corrupted Peter Navarro is
He wasn't qualified either. They did an amazon search to find him.
This is a damn shame. OMG this makes me FURIOUS
This is what you get when healthcare system is run by greedy corporations. When whole country is run by corporations and demand for profit at any cost.
Healthcare should be nonprofit and affordable to everybody. Not everything but big part of it. Government should take care of that. Government should negotiate lowest possible prices for medications, equipment... PPE. In US it is all upsidedown. For example Americans have to pay for overpriced drugs even when development was paid by government with taxpayer money. Healthy people is matter of national interest.
Yes I am a RN and still having to reuse my N95
That’s horrible!
That's inexcusable, so sorry. I've been reusing the same 2 since March. Not a nurse tho, just for safety in large grocery stores.
You can make your own out of merv13 air filter media and surgical tape. If you end up with a surgical mask, use surgical tape to seal it. It may look weird, but I'd do it. Stay safe.
CLINICAL SUPPLIES USA
is anyone in the government intent on saving lives?
20:05 I can't believe it..I can't
33:42 this is heart breaking 💔 34:45 I can't believe how much money they were stealing , our taxes going into their pockets.
I'm really tired of agency officials and politicians saying they don't know what frontline workers are talking about when we say we don't have enough PPE. Hopefully they don't get covid and have to come to the hospital I work at which was just in the news in August for their lack of PPE and protection of staff. St Michael's Medical Center Bremerton Washington. It would be nice if a nurse were in charge at one of these government agencies because guess what. We know what needs to be done! Thanks Frontline for your story. It was a true glimpse into what is really going on.
I hope things are better for you.
I’m not relying on our hospital for supplies when the next wave hits. I got my own stuff. I’m not the only one.
dachicagoan oh goodness no. 😊 I got a half face mask and a shield.
Well, folks, we’re all on our own.
This documentary aired in Hong Kong Television today. Hope the US gets on the right track again with the new administration.
Capitalism, Corporate greed, at the cost of human life.... Sandy RIP Vote the Capitalists out of Government.
no capitalist no mask....
Medics without PPE just like soldiers without weapons
I am the Frontlines biggest fan.
Admiral was quite unconvincing....
Capitalism and corporate greed cost human life
That lady from 3m was shifty as hell. She was parsing her words very carefully. This is one thing I can agree with Peter Navarro (sp) on. The journalist should’ve grilled her more.
I am healthcare worker in the Radiology Department and I have to say my department was well stocked since the start of the pandemic. We did not have any shortages of PPE, with the exception of N95 masks. At the beginning of the pandemic, we were clinging on the edge of N95 masks and was able to survive until we got more shipments. As of now, we are definitely well stocked. I hope my fellow healthcare workers all around the world get the proper PPE for their jobs.
wow, i’ve been wearing the same N95 mask for 2 weeks and i don’t know when i’ll get another one. and it’s january.....of 2021....for months we’ve been trying to conserve gowns. people wear one gown all day. we have been using gloves meant for chemotherapy because that’s all we have. many of our “surgical masks” aren’t even medical grade.
Sorry to hear about your story. It is unacceptable for hospitals to be short on PPE's whether you work for a big or small hospital. I think you and your coworkers should file a complaint because the hospital is endangering their workers. Stay safe out there.
Chinese are willing to work for $4/hr that's why their GDP (Per Capita) is below Botswana and Bulgaria . Everything they make will be cheaper in cost. Its the only reason we deal with them, nobody wants $2000 TVs again.
Thank you for buying $200 TVs and $10 shirts to let ppl of China/Botswana put food their table.
Fact
USA workers want and demand higher paying jobs and benefits that are out of pocket for the manufacturer. Don't blame other countries for doing the job of supplying production to a country that wants $25/hr and works 3 hours out of 8. YOU USA CITIZENS ARE BRAKING THE BANK. BLAME YOURSELVES FOR THIS..
Yeah, that’s why I bought my own P100 mask and 3M face shield. Since our hospital won’t let me get a fit test with my own P100, they tell me I shouldn’t wear it. The N95’s we (well, not me) are using now are being saved to be reused after being placed under ultraviolet light.
I’ll pass, and wear my own. 🤨
The chinese manufacturing system is pretty amazing. We don't have anything like that and probably won't. Ever. You have to remember many workers live at work there. Room and board provided. I think the closest we come to is the private prison industry. That's probably not what we want to import.
The USA used to have a manufacturing system that topped any nation in the world...WWI and WW2 showed how great the system worked.
Working 72-hour sure is amazing. Amazing for the employer, that is.
@@itrthho we didn't have CEO's and BOD's making 600% more than avg workers, nor were they focused solely on investments as #1. For many companies, their business model is to monopolize and any products/services are secondary to share price for the investor. WSJ, commerce consider China's economic model "smart".
Did you ever think about how many Uyghur prisoners are making that PPE as slave labor?
Wow, Navarro is so defensive!
hes a scumbag. He negotiates 2 contracts for almost $700 million and not 1 ventilator was delivered?
Wonder if TRUMP has Philips Stock???????
Tax records please Donny Boy???????????????????????
It's always about the money.
The comment about sending people to war with the proper equipment but not our healthcare workers, was pretty powerful. That comparison should really put into perspective how ridiculous this was handled. We had the playbook but no head coach to lead the team.
Navarro says it was counterfactual that they were slow to respond. He supports this by saying how much they did in mid March. That is exactly the problem as they needed to start in late January and early February...6 weeks earlier... to be prepared. If the administration had been watching the daily infections and deaths in the first week of February and understood how the exponential function of a pandemic works, they would have moved lightning...no questions asked.
I live in southern California and am a nurse. If t told you the truth of what is happening in the medical community most folks wouldn't believe it!!! There isn't enough ppe equipment, ever. Management has become a cruel and mean beast!!! Nurses are quitting!! The demands on the healthcare workers is unrealistic. This is hell!!!!
Our medical system is too expensive to do all the purchase locally.
I love frontline documentaries .
It's almost if like Philips knew a pandemic was coming....and wanted to benefit from the high demand.
Thank you so much! I love that you make these.
I've never been so disgusted with the system before 💔💔💔
Greed versus gratitude? I’ll take gratitude every time. I am blessed. Sending Daimoku to all.
Merrill's Law: when there's an opportunity for a criminal to make money, they will explore that.
Thank you Frontline.
My husband is a healthcare worker in a COVID unit and has been since this whole thing started...he literally got an email a week ago that said, “This is a Marathon, not a Sprint”...well if I a were trainer, training someone for a marathon, I’d make sure THEY had proper gear to make the finish line!!!
These people take a Hippocratic oath. They love their communities and the folks who live in them. Working tireless hours, putting themselves and their families at risk every shift. The hospital my husband works for doesn’t even have a Nurses Union!
We expect them to take care of us....but who’s taking care of them?
THEY!! THEY!!!!
19:39 The way she said “no” was so funny to me lol.
They didn't mention that most of the ingredients which are used to manufacture prescription drugs in the IS are made in China and India.
When Peter Navaro appears, you know responses will be unprofessional.
Addressing this country's capacity to manufacture goods domestically : I have been in general materials manufacturing ( plastics , paper products , and now construction materials) for 2 and a half decades. I have watched the quality of management, supervision, and direct labor decline over that time. At most places where I have worked equipment isn't maintained or replaced until it is absolutely run down. As for pay and benefits, they have been better than what is offered in other fields , such as retail, but opportunities to make more ; through overtime, bonuses, etc, have been reduced. After Obamacare I wasn't offered full health benefits until a job I started in September.
The asset holders and managers will have to change remuneration for labor and increase its share of rewards to a level that is sufficiently worthwhile to attract worthwhile candidates.
The person called sandy ,literally made me cry!
criminal negligence. absolutely criminal
keep allowing our manufacturing to leave and this is what we get..
I've been in manufacturing since the late 70's. Offshoring has been going on for decades. I personally worked for 4 companies that went offshore-3 to Mexico and 1 to China that was a medical supply company. Throughout the 80's and 90's both sides of the aisle, the academic elite and the big brain economists all read from the same page that offshoring was part of the changing world, that people can be retrained, that by opening global markets countries (especially China) would adopt a form of Jeffersonian Democracy, create political freedoms, reduce illegal immigration and everyone would be global citizens competing fairly Fortunately, I was able to adapt, but I watched hundreds of my fellow employees have their livelihoods destroyed. Say what you want about Trump, but he's the first one to call out China for who they are with Obama and Biden telling us "those jobs aren't coming back." I work in the nutraceutical industry and China is a main supplier of many raw materials to the vitamin industry and while my company employs rigid testing protocols, I've seen so many companies use very questionable quality standards for material from China because it's literally pennies on the dollar vs. top tier product. There's a ton of bogus supplements on Amazon with prices that are "too good to be true." Hopefully the pandemic will wake people up to the risk of allowing China to control our supply chain, but honestly, once this blows over, it'll probably be business as usual.
@@thomasmcleod8229 Did they say when?
Every American needs to watch this
They're too busy being Obama in disguise!! Crooked Hillary has replavent more than 2 threes.ameroblicans with Obama disguise!! BLOOD FOR TROMP
do you think the Military has to picket on the front lines "what do we want! bombs & bullets!!!" "when do we want them? before we lose the war!!"
And when cornered ...blame democrats.(It's really getting old)
VERY Old
This video is worth watching! More of this, please!
wife, daughter, brother and myself on frontline we all would like to see some things change but who controls the budgets and who get subsidized or not.... these fat cats in office for 30-50 years getting their family's and themselves rich is the problem... Last president could have fixed it by asking congress to include it in the budget...... nope did not happen...
That's Capitalism, baby.
No its because we tax everyone and every business in this country way too much and too much government interference with the free market. Companies and corporations don't want to be here anymore. They move to China and we also lose jobs because of it.....
Its so sad why america doesnt have PPE. Here in Philippines we have alot
I like Frontline documentaries to be frank. I commend the manner of questioning of these journalists/reporters on this issue. Some officials who "downplayed" the criticisms directed against them were uncomfortable to answer the questions from those journalists/reporters. It is like the officials were caught off guard.
Medical supplies, who would of thought there would be a shortage in our lifetime?! I can't go to the store and find certain medical supplies, it's crazy!
I don't understand why our healthcare workers are still having trouble getting ppe and it's months later!!
Thank you to all healthcare workers for what you do every day, even though you might not have the ppe you need you're still taking care of your fellow Americans! I appreciate you!! Also don't want to forget to thank the workers in these places that are making the ppe for all of us, you are amazing!!!
Look it's very simple companies have moved their businesses across the seas for cheap labor labor laws are relaxed no benefits packages raw materials are cheaper labor hours are longer and they don't have to pay taxes and then they turn around and they come over here with their products to sell them at a higher rate it's just common sense
My God I love Frontline the narrator everything about it is so American educationally informative, I can go on baby
Navarro, wow. Like he knew what made ventilators different in the first place. Cant' wait for this nightmare to be over.
Shame on us.
It's a shame what US corporations done to this country with their greed.
Back when corporations began to exist, they were required to benefit the community. Slowly but surely, thanks to money in politics, corporation's are designed to benefit their shareholders only. Citizen's Untied needs to be reversed but with trump's handmaiden seated will thwart all attempts to correct that horrendous ruling. Dems will have to be as batshit crazy and blitz them with their own kind of sleaze to fix it. "Corporations are people, my friend.'- Mitt Romney
I was hoping they would interview the hospitals as well to find out if they even ordered supplies.
Frontline is top notch
February, 7, 2020 The State Department sent 17.8 tons of medical supplies and equipment to China. American businesses sold $$$ millions worth of PPE's and medical equipment to China
Impose high COVID tax on all Chinese goods. Decouple with China. Order Amazon to label country of manufacture on all products just like in stores.
You're dreaming. Impose high tax and Decouple with China right now? So you want make the shortage even stronger, right? Let me get this straight. Manufacture won't go back to America no matter how hard you try. That's how your greedy capitalism work. Force them leave China? Ok. Then capitalist will set up new factory in India or Vietnam.
So PPE shortage have no relationship with illegal immigrants. Our census is so off in this country, we have no ability to be prepared for anything. We don't have enough hospitals in the right areas, we don't the right amount of money going to correct places. This country has been circling the drain for a long time. Without the ability to tell the truth and people to accept it, we are through.
You mean to tell me that the bureaucracy is so messed up in this pandemic that the inner city nurses can't even get the proper ppe. That is sad. Who does the ordering of the ppe where does the order go? Why do local nurses have to wear the same ppe over and over again.
Another great informative program by the best journalist on 📺
The picture of TV means TV!! TROMP! TROMP! BLOOD FOR TROMP!!!
Peter Navarro seems way too confrontational to be telling the truth in his interview...
Phenomenal presentation
THANK YOU ..FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO .. ♡♡ YOUR EMPATHY AND SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY AND HUMANITY!,♡♡ INTEGRITY?? But too little too Late..
Navarro may one day claim that China will nationalize Navarro. This film needs wider broadcast.
Right, this gives more internal information than any dam news channel!!! This needs to be shared!
I can see moving all manufacturing to the US for larger hospital groups but doing it for the whole industry would be tragic for other entities such as private doctors offices, long-term care facilities and even some rural not-for-profit hospitals all of which have very slim margins.
I have 2 masks I bought at local co op. Elastic bands go around back of my head. Never have to worry about them slipping off my ears. Two layers or cotton. Cost? 7.00 each. I noticed the ppe masks have double elastic.