I don't know about the companies he listed, but here are a few
https://theintercept.com/2020/04/01/coronavirus-medical-supplies-export/
- Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare
- Vapotherm
- Allied Healthcare Products
- Philips Respironics
A couple snippets -
"Vessel manifests maintained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and reviewed by The Intercept show a steady flow of the medical equipment needed to treat the coronavirus being shipped abroad as recently as March 17."
"Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare, a Pennsylvania-based health product firm that produces supplemental oxygen machines, sent at least three different shipments of respiratory equipment to Belgium in mid-February and early March. The total cargo included 14 containers weighing more than 55 tons. DeVilbiss and its owner, Clayton Dubilier & Rice, a New York-based private equity firm, did not respond to a request for comment."
"
A recent ProPublica story
spotlighted a promising effort to stockpile ventilators in preparation for a respiratory pandemic — that failed to deliver in time for the current crisis.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided a contract to develop 10,000 low-cost ventilators from Philips Respironics, an American subsidiary of Royal Philips N.V that produces medical respiratory equipment. But the device, the Trilogy Evo Universal, was never delivered to the national stockpile. The terms of the contract do not require delivery until November 2022, and sources for ProPublica suggest that the administration granted a preferential window to Philips that has allowed the company to first sell the product to a variety of buyers at higher prices.
The subsidiary, CBP records show, has instead exported at least six shipments of respiratory equipment abroad, largely to Europe, over the last two months. Last November, the company also shipped products associated with the Trilogy Evo Universal to the Netherlands."
The Propublica article detailing said contract.
https://www.propublica.org/article/...e-company-is-selling-versions-of-it-overseas-
Another story on this appalling state of affairs.
https://khn.org/news/trump-administ...-to-be-first-in-line-on-medical-supplies-ppe/
Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies
“It’s like ‘Lord of the Flies’ out there for states and hospitals as they bid against each other for critical medical supplies and equipment,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in a statement to KHN. “Plus, there’s no transparency about what the federal government is doing with the equipment that they purchase when they outbid states and hospitals.”
There are a lot of people in this administration who need to be put on trial when this pandemic is maintained or abated. They're making money for themselves and their buddies in the private sector off of American deaths, straight up.
