How New York City’s Emergency Ventilator Stockpile Ended Up on the Auction Block

A 2006 pandemic plan warned that New York City could be short as many as 9,500 ventilators. But the city only acquired a few hundred, which were ultimately scrapped because it couldn’t afford to maintain them

• Politics

• By
  Justin Elliott, ProPublica, Annie Waldman, ProPublica, and Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica
• Apr 7, 2020 8:40 pm