of ventilate, it's available to the u. s. government, according to a pro public investigation in 2014 the u. s. department of health and human services signed a 13800000 dollar contract with dutch electronics conglomerate phillips to design a manufacturer, a cheap and portable ventilator use an emergency. although ventilated was created and the government ordered $10000.00 of them, not a single one was red. at the start of the pandemic. like many countries, the united states face critical ventilator shortages, while phillips were selling to higher priced commercial versions of the same ventilator around the world. so they never fulfilled this order at the cheaper level for the department of health and human deaths prioritize the more overseas. and it's only been recently that the department of health and human scientist has really negotiated the same order, but it has been forced to pay for the bench later at a higher price. that renegotiation, that lindsey mentioned. it resulted in the u. s. government ordering $43000.00 of the commercial ventilators in april at 4 times the regional price. in late august, the remainder of the order

u. s department of public health and human services and currently a clinical associate professor at stanford, and we always appreciate you coming on the show doctor when the cdc reverse course on masking a lot of experts then asked, where's the data? now we have the data. what does it say about the dangers posed by the delta variant? yeah. good afternoon. great to be here. so you know this is emerging data again. we always want more data because this is big and the more people we have, the more we studied, the better we understand, and we're not relying on outliers, but so far what we know is that the delta variant is highly transmissible much more transmissible than the alpha variant, which is the covid strain. that we had based all of our return back to normal guidance on which really happened in may, where the lockdowns and in essence, the, um, uh, removal from masks occurred. so what we're seeing is that the delta variant is very transmissible. we already knew that from abroad, but we're seeing it in the united states, and we're also seeing that people who are vaccinated can in fact. car