What did Donald Trump claim about the pandemic on 26 Mar 2020?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
We took over an empty shelf.
The Strategic National Stockpile he inherited was not empty: HHS's inspector general put its inventory at about $7 billion in 2017.
The HHS Office of Inspector General described the Strategic National Stockpile as 'a repository of vaccines, antibiotics, antidotes, antitoxins, medications, and supplies', found at five audited sites that 'Stockpile inventory was adequately protected', and referred to 'approximately $7 billion of Stockpile inventory' (HHS OIG, Report in Brief A-04-16-03554, June 2017).
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- White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing, James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
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