New York auctions surplus COVID-19 products at rock bottom prices

The authorities of the city of NY They have auctioned off the surplus of medical devices and protective products that were bought with public money in the first months of the pandemic. covid-19 for very low prices, as reported on Tuesday by the local media The City.

The newspaper publishes an investigation into the auctions carried out by the new local administration of Eric Adams since last summer and points out that so far numerous supplies have been sold for only $500,000 that at the peak of the pandemic, when they were in short supply, cost the city $224 million.

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Among those supplies, he cites some 3,000 respirators that the then mayor Bill de Blasio he ordered to manufacture and they cost 12 million dollars, which were never used and were auctioned this January for 24,600 dollars -after being classified as “scrap” that “it does not work”- to a company long Island (NY).

The City cites a spokesperson for the local department of administrative services (DCAS), which handles the auctions, as saying the spending came at a time of crisis with the goal of creating a 90-day stockpile of products, and part of the surplus has been donated to NGOs and to various countries.

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The outlet attributes the current sale of balances to former mayor de Blasio hampering the supervision of contracts to deal with the first wave of covid-19 and suggests that the city paid millions for defective goods or products that were not even manufactured, in addition to shelling out inflated prices.

Source: Elcomercio

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