Unprecedented step to direct the Department Of Defense to use military Health Care Personnel to operate all covid facilities. At the Javits Center in new york, at the Convention Center in new orleans, and at the Convention Center in dallas. And we informed each of the governors of those states today at their requests we were making those military medical personnel available to operate in all covid facility. But we would emphasize to people in that community who believe youve been impacted or have contracted the coronavirus, contact your local Health Care Provider. We anticipate in the new york area that your local Health Care Provider will make the decision whether you transferred to the Javits Center. And in all case, simply look to the guidance of your local governors about how best to receive the care that every american, every american is entitled to have. Beyond that, let me say that we have been working through femas acquisition process, not only to deploy, but to gather up Perso
administration s money putting in to get the vaccine quickly produced having great effect. and president trump being fully vaccinated. this is a time we could come together and make great progress. of course it s under-reported by the media that we have an administration that wants to go back to the policies that worked during the trump administration which is let the states set the policy. have the federal government do what it can do. get the vaccine out and the ventilators out. the federal government has a role. it s done its role. the biden administration is coming around to let s have the states take it because they are the best ones to execute a good program. now we have the last administration and this administration coming together on a promise policy and we don t have the media reporting on it.
given to these states. we wanted you to have some numbers. now, as we ve indicated, we have ventilators in the national stockpile. we pushed ventilators out. we re holding ventilators to put to the point to of need. but we re also buying ventilators, asking the industrial base who produces approximately prior to covid-19, approximately 30,000 ventilators a year. we are going to over the next several months, by the end of june, work to acquire 100,000. and so one of the tools that we re going to i can anticipate needing, we ve already executed, is all of those venders that we re buying them from potentially will need help in their supply chains with their suppliers.