Recently, the United States was the owner of a huge volume of medical supplies and equipment, but all this disappeared right before the coronavirus epidemic swept North America.
It is reported by the “USA Today” edition.
According to media reports, American companies actively used the raging epidemic in China, selling artificial lung ventilation apparatuses and protective equipment worth tens of millions of dollars there.
In January and February of this year, the volume of exports of medical products from the United States to China reached record levels for decades. In particular, American companies sold ventilators for $ 27.3 million, medical masks for $ 17.6 million, and protective suits for $ 13.7 million.
Given that the retail price for the mask in the United States is $ 0.5, more than 35 million medical masks have been sold to China. The number of mechanical ventilation devices delivered to China in two months of 2020 reaches 1.3 thousand, depending on the cost of different models of equipment.
It is noteworthy that both the Donald Trump administration and the US Congress were aware of the magnitude of the threat of coronavirus, but an export ban was not signed. As you know, now this has led to the fact that American doctors were left without much-needed products. The lack of masks led to the fact that they have to be reused or even work without them.
As News Front previously reported, the United States has become the world leader in the spread of coronavirus. Now there are recorded over 245 thousand infected and more than 6 thousand deaths. However, this is not the only tragic record broken in the USA. As American experts found out, the spread of the disease in the United States is 2 times higher than in the world.