Loads of Money and COVID-19 Equipment Wasted in New York As a Result of Treatment Evolving

Brooks Gump, Falk Family Endowed Professor of public health in the Falk College, was interviewed by Politico for the article “New York spent $250M on tech to fight Covid that no one uses.” The article highlights how then-Governor Andrew Cuomo over-estimated the amount of equipment New York needed to battle the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars being wasted. Gump states, “The problem is that the treatment changed. They stopped using ventilators. They found they were basically doing more harm than good in a lot of cases.”