{"id":23807,"date":"2020-04-17T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T23:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23807"},"modified":"2020-04-17T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T23:35:32","slug":"musk-mess-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23807","title":{"rendered":"MUSK MESS UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO and founder\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0last month announced that his company purchased 1,255 FDA-approved ventilators from Chinese oversupply and shipped them to hospitals in Los Angeles to help treat COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>However, four of the hospitals on the list\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vyjmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmhkrfv_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vyjmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzmhkrfv_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587250146562000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGikdB4uvOPItlaUV0X9gTY_KhqRg\">told CNN<\/a>\u00a0that instead of the sought-after ventilators, they received bilevel positive airway pressure (biPAP) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines from the billionaire and his electric car company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We received six CPAPs and we are very grateful for the gift,&#8221; a spokesperson for Sonoma Valley Hospital told the network.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after California Gov.\u00a0Gavin Newsom&#8217;s (D) office\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bzbbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmbgjdpf_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bzbbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmbgjdpf_ucghnnwqwshnmphfwymp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1587250146562000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHLY2kYTQxmWkPXK4Nftx3zlmgRiw\">reported on Thursday<\/a>\u00a0that the ventilators Musk promised never made it to their destinations. At the time, Musk responded by tweeting a list of the hospitals that he said he sent the ventilators to and asked Newsom to fix the &#8220;misunderstanding.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Pich\u00e9, director of public information for the L.A. County Department of Health Services, noted that the machines had &#8220;been distributed to hospitals in our system and are being used as intended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These units are used for breathing and airway support, reducing the need for certain patients to be placed on mechanical ventilation,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO and founder\u00a0Elon Musk\u00a0last month&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23808,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions\/23808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}