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We all know hospitals reported lack of PPE immediately in March and April. They even reported masks are useless to general public so masked could Be saved for frontline workers.

There were ~ 12M N95s in the SNS in Feb. 2020.

Just stop. Did Fauci say the SNS was completely devoid of N95s? No. Does Fauci control the SNS? No. SNS is part of HHS under Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response who is Robert Kadlec. Prior to that it was under CDC. The SNS's role is to SUPPLEMENT, not

be the sole source, of medicine & medical supplies to states. An annual inventory is performed. If, as you alleged, Obama depleted the stockpile, why didn't Trump replenish it? He's been POTUS since 2017. HHS is part of the executive branch. Those "empty shelves" he constantly

referred to were HIS fault, not Obama's. As I've stated several times, the issue was that China, which at the time manufactured the majority of PPE items - masks, gloves, gowns, face shields, etc. - had CLOSED those factories. Nothing was being exported. And stupid Americans

were buying and hording K95s from Amazon and other retailers. The SNS doesn't supply PPE routinely to hospitals and healthcare professionals. What about the hospitals that said their orders were seized by HHS? Or those which stated they never got their supplies from HHS? Do you