The bargain-basement sales included nearly 3,000 ventilators that cost taxpayers $12 million but were unloaded as “non-functioning medical equipment for scrap metal.”
, which former Mayor Bill de Blasio had predicted would help the Big Apple “beat this crisis and prepare for the next.”. “We’d never made a ventilator before — and so we made thousands. We learned it would take a year — and so we did it in a month.”
They’re now part of a massive lot of 701,000 face shields that were reportedly put up for auction last week with an opening bid of just $1,000, or 0.14 cents each. One contract, for $9.1 million, reportedly went to controversial, New Jersey-based Digital Gadgets for ventilators that the company failed to deliver, then provided the city with N95 masks instead.
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