The government website for the emergency repository appears to have been updated this morning.
The official government webpage for the Strategic National Stockpile was altered Friday to seemingly reflect a controversial description of the emergency repository that White House adviser Jared Kushner offered at a news conference Thursday evening.
According to a brief online summary on the Department of Health and Human Services website, the stockpile’s role “is to supplement state and local supplies during public health emergencies. Many states have products stockpiled, as well.”
But just hours earlier, the text characterized the stockpile as the “nation’s largest supply of life-saving pharmaceuticals and medical supplies for use in a public health emergency severe enough to cause local supplies to run out.”
The previous language stated that when “state, local, tribal, and territorial responders request federal assistance to support their response efforts, the stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most during an emergency.”
Also stripped from the new summary is a sentence that affirmed the stockpile “contains enough supplies to respond to multiple large-scale emergencies simultaneously.”
The revisions come after Kushner argued at the White House coronavirus task force press briefing Thursday that the stockpile’s reserves are the property of the federal government, not the states.
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The website for the national repository of emergency equipment was updated this morning https://t.co/Yda61dvHVO
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Oh my God.
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) April 3, 2020
You know it’s bad when the response by @GenMhayden is “Oh my God.”👇🏼 https://t.co/Cont39SOE2
— Fernand R. Amandi (@AmandiOnAir) April 3, 2020Gov't website before Jared: “The stockpile ensures that the right medicines and supplies get to those who need them most.”
Govt website now: The stockpile’s “role is to supplement state and local supplies. Many states have products stockpiled as well.” https://t.co/zHE0M7VxGv
— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) April 3, 2020
Jared Kushner is in charge of the medical supply chain that delivers critical items to the doctors and nurses who are on the frontlines everyday. Yesterday he said it was “OURS”, so I asked what he meant. Trump did not like the question. https://t.co/pZfQiNVWne
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