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The federal preparedness plan leaves preparations for medical care up to state and city health officials, but the only government agency that amasses ventilators is the Strategic National Stockpile, created in 1999 by the disease centers to store medicine and equipment for use in a terrorist attack or a disaster. But the agency has only 4,000 to 5,000 ventilators, according to a federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of a dispute between government health and security agencies about whether the size of the stockpile ought to be kept secret.
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/us/hospitals-short-on-ventilators-if-bird-flu-hits.html
Bush set aside monies, it never happened.
Good read, shows how money gets spent up, how one president had money for it, another didn't actually do it, and the current one gets blamed for it.