Trump Unveils Medical Supply Plan After Criticism Over Shortages

President Donald Trump announced plans to resupply and maintain the U.S. stockpile of medical equipment, more than two months into a coronovirus pandemic that initially caught many hospitals with shortages of ventilators and protective gear.

The U.S. will keep 90 days of supplies to gird against future flare-ups of the outbreak as the nation begins to reopen its economy, according to the Trump administration.

“I’m determined that America will be fully prepared for any of the future outbreaks,” Trump said Thursday after touring an Owens & Minor Inc. distribution center for medical supplies in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

As part of the ...