By ERIKA I. RITCHIE | The Orange County Register | Published: January 6, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. SANTA ANA, Calif. (Tribune News Service) The USNS Mercy, a Navy hospital ship that in March took aboard non-COVID-19 patients to help with a surge of patients in Los Angeles area hospitals, is not likely to be deployed to help again anytime soon, Navy officials said on Tuesday. The 1,000-bed hospital ship is presently in a shipyard in Portland undergoing scheduled maintenance. The maintenance was planned before the ship s LA deployment, but deferred.
California spent millions on ventilators. Why they re sitting unused during COVID surge
Sacramento Bee 12/31/2020 Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee
Dec. 31 In the spring, California set a bold goal: Have 10,000 ventilators ready to farm out to overwhelmed hospitals treating sick patients struggling to breathe.
Officials put their faith in a small Bakersfield medical supply company once raided by the FBI during a Medicare fraud investigation. For a moment, the arrangement looked like it might go bust the way of other high-dollar deals forged during the pandemic s Wild West days.
But Ashli Health Care this fall delivered the final shipments of ventilators 4,138 in total, state records show. The state paid out $77.7 million to the company, among the largest contracts entered during the COVID-19 response and by far the single largest purveyor of ventilators.
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