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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wh...ch-don-n1210896
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Trump administration paying huge premium for mask-cleaning machines. Which don't do the job.
The president pressured the FDA to waive rules for mask-cleaning machines that ballooned to 10 times the original cost. But the process may damage the masks.
It sounded like a great deal: The White House coronavirus task force would buy a defense company’s new cleaning machines to allow critical protective masks to be reused up to 20 times. And at $60 million for 60 machines on April 3, the price was right.
But over just a few days, the potential cost to taxpayers exploded to $413 million, according to notes of a coronavirus task force meeting obtained by NBC News. By May 1, the Pentagon pegged the ceiling at $600 million in a justification for awarding the deal without an open bidding process or an actual contract. Even worse, scientists and nurses say the recycled masks treated by these machines begin to degrade after two or three treatments, not 20, and the company says its own recent field testing has only confirmed the integrity of the masks for four cycles of use and decontamination.
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騰訊翻譯君
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特朗普政府為面具清洗機支付了巨額溢價。不能勝任這項工作。
總統向FDA施壓，要求其放棄口罩清潔機的規定，因為口罩清潔機的價格飆升至原始成本的10倍。但這一過程可能會損壞口罩。
這聽起來像是一筆不錯的交易：白宮冠狀病毒工作組將購買一家國防公司的新清潔機，以允許關鍵的防護口罩重複使用多達20次。4月3日，60台機器的售價為6000萬美元，價格合理。
但根據NBC新聞獲得的冠狀病毒工作組會議記錄，在短短幾天內，納稅人的潛在成本激增至4.13億美元。到5月1日，五角大樓將上限定為6億美元，作為在沒有公開招標過程或實際合同的情況下授予這筆交易的理由。更糟糕的是，科學家和護士表示，經過這些機器處理的回收口罩在經過兩到三次處理後開始降解，而不是20次。該公司表示，他們自己最近的現場測試只確認了口罩在四個使用和去污週期內的完整性。
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