COVID-19 Pandemic: Donald Trump describes the scariest day of his life

President Donald Trump, has described the scariest day of his life.

The 73 year old US president said his “scariest day” was last month when he was told the US had a shortage of ventilators needed by patients during the coronavirus pandemic.

Speaking to reporters during coronavirus briefing at the White House, President Trump said; “The scariest day of my life was about a month ago when after a long day of meetings, my team told me that we were going to be needing 130,000 ventilators, that we were short hundreds of thousands of ventilators.”

According to Trump, his administration will build a federal ventilator reserve in case of a future reoccurrence of the disease.

The public-private partnership, dubbed the Dynamic Ventilator Reserve, will see the U.S. build some 200,000 ventilators by the end of the year.

Trump blamed previous administrations, saying “this is a system we inherited,” while giving a huge blow on some governors for requesting what he refers to as “unreasonable” numbers of ventilators from the federal stockpile.

“It was a very powerful hammer in order to manufacture as many ventilators as possible,” Trump said on Tuesday evening of the Defense Production Act which he signed into law last month and compels private companies including General Motors to devote their production lines to ventilator production.

Adding that, “Last year, America manufactured, from a dead start, 30,000 ventilators. This year, the number will be over 150,000 ventilators, it could be as high as 200,000 — far more than we will ever need.”

“We will be able to stockpile, we will be able to talk to states about stockpiling,” President Trump said.