The
White House said Monday that 500 ventilators on loan from
California will be shipped to Nevada,
Maryland, Delaware, the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam as the nation faces a crush of coronavirus-related hospitalizations.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced earlier the nation's most populous state would share some of its ventilators, a necessary tool to keep struggling patients breathing, with the national stockpile even as it hunts for more of its own supplies.
Newsom suggested that
New York may be one of the states to receive the ventilators, but he said the federal government was best poised to decide where they were needed most.