据《纽约时报》报道，唐纳德·特朗普总统最近在一次电话会议上告诉一群州长，要求他们“自己”获得呼吸机和呼吸器。
根据《泰晤士报》报道，特朗普对州长小组说：“呼吸器，呼吸机，所有设备-尽力而为。” “我们将为您提供支持，但请自己尝试。如果可以自己获得，销售点会更好，更直接。”
根据白宫发给《新闻周刊》的电子邮件，特朗普“表示他们也应该也获得材料”。
《纽约时报》还报道说，许多州长对特朗普的言论感到惊讶，因为他们一直在等待联邦政府在该国冠状病毒爆发期间向他们提供设备，人员和财政援助。
在美国，随着新型冠状病毒的病例继续激增，特朗普与州长们打了招呼。这种冠状病毒起源于中国武汉，已在美国感染了4000多人，并造成至少71人死亡。
尽管美国案件的持续增加，在特朗普与州长的电话中听起来还是乐观的，他说：“我们将对其进行补救，希望很快。”
特朗普说：“我们破坏了一个已经崩溃，非常严重破坏的系统。”他补充说，他的政府将创建一个系统来应对他认为“将成为世界的话题”的疫情。
特朗普在电话会议上发表评论是在美国过敏和传染病研究所（National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases）主任安东尼·福西（Anthony Fauci）博士就冠状病毒爆发发表不同看法之后不久。
富奇（Fauci）出现在美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）的国情咨文中时表示：“如果我们过着日常生活而不为所有事情担心，那事情就不会发生。
当被问及成百上千的美国人是否可能死于这种病毒时，他说：“情况可能更糟。”
在整个疫情爆发期间，特朗普政府因其对健康危机的处理而继续受到批评。
在周一的新闻发布会上，纽约州州长安德鲁·库莫（Andrew Cuomo）建议，美国需要提高联邦领导地位，以帮助阻止该病毒的传播。
库莫对许多州长实施的禁止公众集会表示：“这是一个全国性的问题，我们需要联邦领导。” “您需要联邦参数来停止全国范围内减少密度关闭的工作。”
特朗普还受到民主党总统候选人伯尼·桑德斯和乔·拜登的批评。
桑德斯在3月12日于佛蒙特州伯灵顿发表的讲话中说：“我们的政府基本上无能，其无能和鲁re行为威胁到我们国家许多人的生命。”
拜登当天在特拉华州威尔明顿的一次讲话中说：“这种病毒暴露了现任政府的严重缺陷。”
President Donald Trump recently told a group of governors during a conference call to obtain ventilators and respirators by "yourselves," according to a report by The New York Times.
"Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment—try getting it yourselves," Trump told the group of governors, according to the Times. "We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Points of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself."
According to an email sent to Newsweek by the White House, Trump "said they should also get materials as well."
The Times also reported that many of the governors were surprised by Trump's comments, considering that they have been waiting for the federal government to provide them with equipment, personnel and financial aid amid the nation's coronavirus outbreak.
Trump's call with the governors comes as cases of the novel coronavirus continue to surge in the U.S. The virus, which originated in Wuhan, China, has infected over 4,000 people in the U.S. and caused at least 71 deaths.
Despite the continuing increase of cases in the U.S., during his call with the governors Trump sounded positive, saying, "We're going to get it remedied and hopefully very quickly."
"We broke down a system that was broken, very badly broken," Trump said, adding that his administration will create a system to combat the outbreak that he thinks "is going to be the talk of the world."
Trump's comments during the call came shortly after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gave a different view on the coronavirus outbreak.
While appearing on CNN's State of the Union, Fauci stated that "if we go about our daily lives and not worry about everything, that it's not going to happen, it could happen.
"And it could be worse," he said when asked if hundreds or thousands of Americans could die from the virus.
Throughout the outbreak, Trump's administration has continued to receive criticism for its handling of the health crisis.
At a Monday press conference, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested that the U.S. needs to see an increase in federal leadership to help stop the spread of the virus.
"This is a national problem, and we need federal leadership," Cuomo said in regard to the bans on public gatherings that have been implemented by a number of governors. "You need federal parameters to stop the national patchwork of density reduction closings."
Trump has also been criticized by Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
"We have an administration that is largely incompetent and whose incompetence and recklessness have threatened the lives of many, many people in our country," Sanders said at a speech in Burlington, Vermont, on March 12.
"This virus laid bare the severe shortcomings of the current administration," Biden said at a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, the same day.
