California Gov. Gavin Newsom said when his state received 170 ventilators from the federal government that were defective, he sent them to a Silicon Valley company to get them fixed.
“Rather than lamenting about it, rather than complaining about it, rather than pointing fingers, rather than generating headlines in order to generate more stress and anxiety, we got a car and a truck,” the Democrat said Saturday, according to the Los Angeles Times. “And we had those 170 brought here to this facility at 8 a.m. this morning, and they are quite literally working on those ventilators right now.”
California is one of the hardest-hit states by the pandemic, with more than 5,500 confirmed cases and 100 deaths as of Sunday morning. Newsom has issued a virtual statewide lockdown in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.
The governor said Bloom Energy is fixing the 170 machines from the national stockpile, as well as 500 others California already had.
“That’s the spirit of California,” Newsom said. “That’s the spirit of this moment.”
