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Cuomo Becomes Trump's Target After Demanding Ventilators Now

  • Governor: ‘FEMA sent us 400 ventilators. We need 30,000!’
  • President says New York’s leader should be quiet and thankful
Andrew Cuomo, center, tours an example of a makeshift hospital room at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York on March 23.Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg
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As New York reported more than 5,000 new coronavirus cases and an infection rate doubling roughly every three days, Governor Andrew Cuomo lashed out at President Donald Trump for relying on corporations to fast-track the manufacture of life-saving ventilators.

“You can’t do this on a voluntary basis,” Cuomo said Tuesday during a news conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which is being converted into a temporary hospital. He warned that many victims of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, will die needlessly without ventilation.