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JB Pritzker: “I needed ventilators. I had people going in the hospital and…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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Published | Video Starts at 32:12

By the way, they go for 75 cents, at least at the time. And you couldn't get one for seven bucks at the time. So it was that I needed ventilators. I had people going in the hospital and dying, and we didn't have enough ventilators here. And he wouldn't deliver those things to me. Promised, and then he didn't deliver on them. And I think that says everything you need to know in a national emergence. (32:12–32:18)

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Asserts that Illinois faced a shortage of ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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