![]() "The federal government is not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping," Trump said on Thursday. The arrival of Sunday's planeload, which was first reported by Reuters, comes as the Trump administration faces criticism over its distribution of medical gear that is in short supply across the country, and for urging states to buy supplies on their own. Trump meets with supply chain distributors Sunday afternoon, according to his official schedule. "At President Trump's direction we formed an unprecedented Public-Private partnership to ensure that massive amounts of masks, gear and other will be brought to the United States immediately to better equip our health care workers on the front lines and to better serve the American people," White House adviser Jared Kushner said in the statement. Nearly 700 people have died in New York City alone, as of Sunday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. The tri-state area is the epicenter of the nation's growing coronavirus epidemic. The statement said a "majority of these supplies will be provided by FEMA to the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut with the rest going to nursing homes in the area and to other high risk areas across the country." ![]() ![]() A handful of American health care distributors purchases the supplies, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid for the Shanghai-to-New York flight. ![]() Sunday's shipment included 130,000 N95 masks, nearly 1.8 million other face masks and gowns, more than 10.3 million gloves and more than 70,000 thermometers, according to a White House statement. ![]()
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