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Trump Unveils Medical Supply Plan After Criticism Over Shortages

  • ‘Strategic National Stockpile 2.0’ to include testing supplies
  • President visits medical supplier involved in Kushner program

President Trump tours a Honeywell International Inc. factory producing N-95 masks in Phoneix, Arizona, on May 5.

Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

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President Donald Trump announced plans to resupply and maintain the U.S. stockpile of medical equipment, more than two months into a coronovirus pandemic that initially caught many hospitals with shortages of ventilators and protective gear.

The U.S. will keep 90 days of supplies to gird against future flare-ups of the outbreak as the nation begins to reopen its economy, according to the Trump administration.