Video Shows Hundreds of Ventilators Just Dumped in the Miami-Dade Landfill

In March 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak spread to America and others, locking down entire countries at a time, there was a little bit of a frenzy. People panicked as we found that there was a sudden shortage of everything from food to medical supplies and everything in between. This was just the beginning of a long journey that everyone would have to ride out together.

Towards the beginning of this journey, one of the items that were in high demand and at a shortage were ventilators. These ventilators were important to hospitals in order to help COVID patients survive. Because of the shortage, many brands including Tesla and Ford had chipped in to do what they could to create ventilators to donate to hospitals, many of their components consisting of car parts.

However, fast forward a little bit over a year, and one Florida news station has run into quite an odd situation. In a recent report from WPLG 10 in Florida, a whole stockpile of ventilators has been discovered at the dump. The news station says that there were hundreds of units just scattered there, ready to be destroyed in just a couple of days.

So, with units that cost about $26,000 each, how exactly did they end up in the trash? Well, this is where we kind of come upon a little bit of a stumbling point in the story. The one leads that the news station had would take us to the freight company that ended up dumping the seemingly new ventilators. However, they say that they can’t comment without the permission of the importer.

The report also went on to say that this particular model number was not included on the FDA emergency use authorization list that was made for COVID-19.

It seems as if the story may forever become a dead end. However, the situation left people in the comments wondering if this is an example of taxpayer money being spent and simply thrown in the trash after it was no longer useful.