ADADThe Post previously reported that Adrian Urias, AutoMedx’s co-founder and current shareholder, advised the Trump administration’s covid-19 task force on ventilator purchases. The fact that the AutoMedx ventilators are ill-suited for covid-19 patients “raises serious questions about whether their purchase for nearly $70 million constitutes waste, fraud, or abuse,” he wrote. The contract for AutoMedx ventilators, at about $70 million, is relatively small in the broader context of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on coronavirus relief. But the company’s apparent connections to the White House team that coordinated ventilator response raised questions about the fairness of the selection process. One military doctor said an underpowered ventilator could “kill [covid patients] just as fast as no ventilator at all.”

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2021 14:05 UTC