California Gov. Gavin Newsom Gavin NewsomCalifornia governor Newsom signs bill extending family leave to small businesses California family frustrated that governor, Harris used fire-damaged property for 'photo opportunity' Pac-12 moves toward 'return to competition' after Big Ten announces resumption of football season MORE's (D) office said none of the more than 1,000 ventilators Tesla CEO Elon Musk Elon Reeve MuskThe pandemic showed states that businesses don't need special favors Would becoming one of the first people to settle Mars be worth dying for? Hillicon Valley: Twitter flags Trump campaign tweet of Biden clip as manipulated media | Democrats demand in-person election security briefings resume | Proposed rules to protect power grid raise concerns MORE pledged to deliver to California hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic have been received as of this week.

Musk tweeted in late March that Tesla had bought 1,255 FDA-approved ventilators from a Chinese oversupply and shipped them to Los Angeles, but the governor’s office said Wednesday that none of the promised devices had yet reached hospitals.

"Elon Musk and his team told the state that he had procured ventilators and wanted to distribute them directly to hospitals with shortages," a spokesperson for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services told CNN Wednesday.

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"The Administration is communicating every day with hospitals across the state about their ventilator supply and to date we have not heard of any hospital system that has received a ventilator directly from Tesla or Musk,” the spokesperson added.

Musk has called the situation a “misunderstanding” that he called on Newsom to “fix,” tweeting what he said were screenshots of emails between himself and a Los Angeles County health department official dated March 27, indicating county officials had tested the devices and intended to put them into use the next day. The CEO also posted a screenshot of an email from the CEO of Mammoth Hospital in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., stating that the ventilators "give us a fighting chance."

.@GavinNewsom please fix this misunderstanding — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2020

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Newsom said last week that California has stockpiled more than 11,000 ventilators to address the pandemic in the state, which has been under a stay-at-home order for the past five weeks. Newsom said the state has a sufficient supply and was equipped to lend 500 ventilators to other states with fewer available machines.

The Hill has reached out to Tesla for further clarification or comment.