[ April 23, 2024 ]
More news the media is censoring and scrubbing. While President Trump wages war on Coronavirus, the Democrat-media complex wages war on Trump.
Team USA: 50 companies join Trump’s war on coronavirus
By: Paul Bedard| Washington Examiner | March 31, 2020
Some 50 major American firms have joined the national war on the coronavirus, many volunteering to shift their focus and even assembly lines to deliver needed supplies to doctors, hospitals, first responders and others on the front lines.
Most said that they answered President Trump’s call for help and were not pushed into action by the government or threat of the Defense Production Act.
The administration has collected a list of about 35-40 major companies that have enlisted. They range from Facebook to Anheuser-Busch to Ford, Fiat Chrysler, and Toyota. “While by no means comprehensive, these are some notable examples of the private sector stepping up,” said an administration official.
Effective immediately, Brooks Brothers will produce 150,000 masks per day to protect those on the frontlines battling the spread of #COVID19.
Thank you Claudio DelVecchio for answering the @WhiteHouse’s call to action! https://t.co/ifl2LY5WqS
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) March 30, 2020
Other national and local groups have also brought in corporate partners to help find masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment.
The National Sheriffs’ Association, for example, told Secrets that its members have received tremendous help from Home Depot, Grainger, and Staples, and that a half-dozen national restaurant chains have offered to help.
Their pleas for help have been “enthusiastically welcomed” by some top corporations, said National Sheriffs’ Association Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Thompson. “What they are doing is more than impressive. It’s heartening,” he said.
A huge #THANKYOU to companies like @HomeDepot, @grainger, and @StaplesStores for helping protect our #firstresponders! And to restaurants like @DairyQueen, @FirehouseSubs, @krispykreme, @MissionBBQ, @Wendys, @Whataburger, and @ChickfilA for supporting and feeding them! https://t.co/2tdEpdhTG3
— National Sheriffs' Association (@NationalSheriff) March 31, 2020
President Trump has highlighted corporate partners at his daily coronavirus task force press conferences. He’s brought so many up so often that some media outlets have started to stop covering those portions of the daily briefing, including CNN.
Before he introduced the latest group on Monday, he said, “Joining us this afternoon are CEOs of the great American companies that are fulfilling their patriotic duty by producing or donating medical equipment to help meet our most urgent needs. What they’re doing is incredible. And these are great companies.”
The White House added on Tuesday, “The private sector is responding to President Trump’s call to step up and help combat the coronavirus.”
Officials provided Secrets their representative list of business partners and some of the things those firms are doing. It is posted below:
- Ford, 3M and GE Healthcare are collaborating to increase the production of ventilators and personal protective equipment. The Ford-GE plan is to produce 50,000 ventilators within 100 days and up to 30,000 a month thereafter. With 3M, it will make more than 100,000 face shields per week.
- Toyota is using their facilities to produce face shields and collaborating with medical device companies to speed up manufacturing of vital medical devices. It is also helping local organizations and nonprofits with ‘in-kind’ donations, plus utilizing several of the company’s North American facilities to fabricate face shields while collaborating with medical device companies to speed the manufacture of ventilators, respirators and other vital devices for hospitals.
- General Motors is manufacturing respiratory masks and working with Ventec Life Systems to mass produce ventilators.
- Fiat Chrysler is manufacturing and donating more than 1 million protective face masks a month.
- Honeywell has doubled their production of N95 masks and intends to increase its capacity fivefold within the next 90 days. The firm is also starting another plant in Arizona and will hire 500.
- 3M doubled their global output of N95 respirator masks and plans to make 100 million a month.
- MyPillow has dedicated 75% of its manufacturing to produce up to 50,000 masks a day.
- Hanes has agreed to use its manufacturing facilities to help produce medical masks.
- Jockey International is producing isolation gowns and donating scrubs to medical workers at the Javits Center in New York. They plan to deliver up to 50,000 gowns a week.
- Ralph Lauren announced that they would work with their manufacturing partners to produce masks and isolation gowns.
- Brooks Brothers is using its facilities to produce 150,000 masks per day.
- Bauer said it will repurpose their factories to begin making face shields.
- Under Armour also said it will make 500,000 masks, 1,000 face shields, and thousands of hospital gowns.
- HP is utilizing 3D printing to produce equipment.
- Facebook donated over 700,000 masks and are working to source millions more to donate.
- Apple donated millions of N-95 masks to healthcare professionals and worked with the administration to develop an app to allow users to screen themselves for coronavirus symptoms.
- Tesla purchased and donated more than 1,000 ventilators.
- SpaceX is making hand sanitizer and face shields for local hospitals.
- Lockheed Martin donated use of their corporate aircraft and vehicle fleet for medical supply delivery, and is donating the use of their facilities for crisis-related activities.
- Boeing will print 3D face shields for healthcare workers and offer its Dreamlifter aircraft to help coronavirus response efforts.
- United Technologies donated 90,000 pieces of personal protective equipment to FEMA, and announced that they will begin to manufacture face shields”
- Pernod Ricard is repurposing its spirits production facilities to help produce hand sanitizer.
- Anheuser-Busch is working to produce hand sanitizer and has offered its facilities to the American Red Cross to host blood drives as part of a $5 million donation to the group.
- Bacardi is producing ethanol required to make hand sanitizer.
- Bayer, Novartis, and Teva Pharmaceuticals donated millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine.·
- Johnson & Johnson has partnered with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to commit more than $1 billion to co-fund vaccine research, development, and clinical testing.
- Procter & Gamble is ramping up its production capacity for hand sanitizer, and is working to produce face masks.
- Medtronic is increasing its production of ventilators, announcing that they are on track to double their capacity to manufacture and supply ventilators.
- Multiple healthcare distributors and supply chain companies are collaborating with FEMA as part of “Project Airbridge” to airlift critical medical supplies. The project includes Cardinal Health, Atlas Air, and UPS.
- UPS is also deploying protective equipment and test kits throughout the country.
- FedEx Express launched a special operation to help the federal government quickly move coronavirus test specimens from over 50 remote drive-thru testing centers across 12 states.
- McLane Global Logistics is partnering with USDA to deliver food to children.
- Panera Bread is partnering with USDA to serve meals to children throughout Ohio, with plans to expand the program across the country.
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17 Comments
4 years ago
After so much division in this country, for so long, this kind of thing brings a tear to the eye.
4 years ago
Reply to
livingengine
Allot of these companies are donating their part free of charge. We have some amazing people and companies out there.
4 years ago
And yet the left leaning Trump Derangement Syndrome MSM find fault with Trump getting corporations to do what they can to help. To them, Trump letting people know about these good corporate citizens is him dong a rally for himself. Yea. Right.
4 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
I’m sure Tim Brown, who claims to be a “conservative” also sees it that way. Tim Brown’s divisive hatred for Trump is awful.
4 years ago
Right on que, the very companies attacking our rights are siding with the unconstitutional actions of this Congress and administration. Why am I not surprised?
4 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
Would you like everyone strolling around spreading this stuff? Why is it we can always count on you, Tim Brown, to pop up to DISS Trump? Your hatred and trying to undermine Trump in any way you can, are consistent. Shouldn’t you be huddling with Flake and Romney and maybe even Pelosi?
Your TDS is blinding you as usual… These companies are trying to help with this crisis. It sure beats what YOU are doing! You lack shame.
3 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
Although Congress (specifically the House) has the constitutional authority, they took NO action regarding the lockdowns. And, the Executive Branch, also, took no “lockdown” actions? Are you actually THAT uninformed and poorly educated?
4 years ago
I thought this was a crisis manufactured by Democrats? I thought Trump and his doctor advisor said this was less serious than the flu. It’s a crisis because government needed a crisis to put us trillions more in debt for their friends on Wall Street, government and other ties.
4 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
I believe you have a severe case ot TDS.
You are a vile person trying to stir up division and trouble. You might want to listen to some Trump press briefings. If you think Trump is happy with this economic crash, you are sicker than I could have ever imagined.
Main Street has been benefitting through jobs and employment by Trump policies. Wall Street prefers the opposite – cheap labor and high legal American citizens unemployed. The reason Wall Street HATES Trump is because they are not benefiting from Trump policies. Again, Tim Brown, you have a severe case of TDS is over the top!
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Just like WWII, Trump is mobilizing industry for the fight. And this truly is a war, a species war, against an alien invader that literally came out of nowhere. And since it threatens our species, we will win if we fight it together, as a unified fighting force. WIth this fight we will learn, because China is a river of new viruses, from swine flu, bird flu, H1N1, H1N5, H2N2, and now the many corona viruses. We will get good at this, or be forever vulnerable to alien attack.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Just like WWII, Trump is mobilizing industry for the fight. And this truly is a war, a species war, against an alien invader that literally came out of nowhere. And since it threatens our species, we will win if we fight it together, as a unified fighting force. WIth this fight we will learn, because China is a river of new viruses, from swine flu, bird flu, H1N1, H1N5, H2N2, and now the many corona viruses. We will get good at this, or be forever vulnerable to alien attack.
4 years ago
Reply to
Tim Brown
Are you Canadian/ Canada’s Trudeau lied and told Canadians today that Trump had to force companies to come forward. It turns out all the supplies donated to Canada from China, Masks etc are defective and dont work. In fact the Chinese aid sent to other countries is inefective doesn’t work and wasn’t tested? How could this be accidental for millions of masks?
Oh yeah you maintain it’s Trumps fault.
Do the Math – the only thing standing in the way of Globalism is
Trump, Putin, Assad, Netanyahu, Qadaffy, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and not a few former Soviet Satellites.
Oh you think it is all Trump – You and George Soros, say do you take funding from Soros? Sounds like it.
4 years ago
At first G.M. didn’t want to make things for the government, but fortunately they reconsidered. They would have lost a lot of business if they didn’t and Trump would have made sure o that.
4 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
G.M. OWES the U.S. Taxpayer Big Time.. Remember The U.S. Govt. used Taxpayer Money to Bail G.M. Out during the Obama Admin… FORD on the Other Hand Didn’t take One Penny !!! So, G.M. Trustees, Stockholders, Admin. Suck it Up… Do your Part for the “Coronavirus War Effort”.
4 years ago
This is great news. American companies coming to the aid of their customers. Another Great step would be to stop using the service of AT&T, Comcast, Viacom, CBS and Disney who are the propaganda organs of the Commiecrat Party which is controlled by the ChiComs and their fellow-travelers.
