'Where are the ventilators?' New York governor Andrew Cuomo begs the US government to spring into action, says it's missing 'the magnitude of the problem'

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• Gov. Andrew Cuomo emphasized New York State's dire need for ventilators and criticized the US government for not being more proactive in helping.
• New York requires 30,000 ventilators and has obtained 7,000, Cuomo said.
• Cuomo suggested sending resources from the national stockpile to New York until the state gets a handle on the spread of the coronavirus, at which point they could re-allocate them to the rest of the US.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo stressed the state's need for ventilators and criticized the US government for not providing more resources to New York during a press conference Tuesday.

New York State, which usually operates with several thousand ventilators under normal conditions, now requires a total of 30,000 to meet the increased needs due to the coronavirus outbreak, the governor said.

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