New York City has sold $200 million worth of COVID-era PPE purchases for just $500,000.
In total, New York City sold $200 million worth of Covid-era PPE purchases for just $500,000.Back in April 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York City placed an order for 3,000 emergency ventilators.
"People were dying," said Bill Hammond, senior policy fellow at the conservative-leaning think tank The Empire Center. "There was reasonable concern that it was going to keep getting worse.""In those conditions, a lot of expensive mistakes are going to get made," Hammond said. "The basic situation was panic buying.
"The advertisement in the auction was for ‘nonfunctioning medical equipment for scrap metal,’ and they sold it to this junk dealer on Long Island for $24,600.In total, the city sold $200 million worth of COVID-era PPE purchases for just $500,000. Mayor Eric Adams, when asked Tuesday why the city is selling the items for pennies blamed what he referred to as a city "charter" that, according to him, requires the items be disposed of.
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