The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a nearly $500 million contract with General Motors under the Defense Production Act to produce 30,000 ventilators that will be delivered to the national stockpile to help treat coronavirus patients.
Washington The Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday announced a nearly $500 million contract with General Motors under the Defense Production Act to produce 30,000 ventilators that will be delivered to the national stockpile to help treat coronavirus patients.
The ventilators would be delivered to the Strategic National Stockpile by the end of August with a production schedule allowing for the delivery of 6,132 ventilators by June 1, according to a statement from HHS, which said the price of the contract was $489.4 million.The department says the move follows President Donald Trump's direction to Secretary Alex Azar late last month to invoke the Defense Production Act with regard to GM's production of ventilators.
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