Pompeo tweeted about the USA sending personal protective equipment to China on Feb 7. The State Dept also has a memo posted on its .gov website proclaiming it sent out 18 tons of PPE to China. Please save these to your files and distribute.
Please also note that in late January, HHS Secretary Azar requested the National Stockpile be bulked up by $2 billion. The White House slashed that by 75% to 500 million.
We can agree it was a wise decision to help China contain the virus but it doesn’t comport with any official statements about the looming threat to the USA made during this time period. Nor does it match the White House response to our own coming needs and replenishing our own depleted stockpile.
The Pompeo tweet and State Dept memo became more widely seen March 28, even as blue states are getting only a fraction of the gear they need while Florida has gotten everything it has requested.