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Rep. Grace Meng shared her frustration over how President Trump is handling coronavirus with CNN on Friday.

The comments from the New York congresswoman were prompted by Trump's comments Thursday night questioning whether New York needed more ventilators.

"Day by day, I am just more and more heartbroken and horrified at the attitude toward which he is treating fellow Americans. I've been so angry for weeks because first we kept hearing weeks ago already from our health care practitioners that they didn't have the PPE that they needed. There has been more than advance notice to do what he needs to do to make sure that this is not happening and not worsening in the state of New York, but potentially in other states around the country as well," Meng said.

Meng's frustration was punctuated in a tweet she sent Friday after speaking to a nurse at Elmhurst Hospital in New York.

"A nurse at my elmhurst hospital who i don’t know just called me crying. She said they need vents but more so need doctors and also doctors who are ICU trained. She told me they cry everyday bc they know they’re gonna die. They’re begging. Please," Meng tweeted.

What is happening in New York: Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo slammed Trump for his call to distribute federal ventilators the state had in storage as the two leaders' war of words over the coronavirus pandemic escalates.

Cuomo argued that the ventilators were stored in preparation for when New York hospitals exceed their capacity as the state has become the epicenter of the American coronavirus outbreak.

Cuomo told CNN on Friday that Trump's assessment of the situation "incorrect and grossly uninformed."

"Of course we didn't — that's the whole point," Cuomo said. "The hospitals don't need them yet. The hospitals aren't at their apex. The hospitals have enough ventilators today, but their numbers are going up."

Cuomo added that his office was planning for a peak in cases "in about 21 days — that's when we need the 30,000 ventilators, not today."

Trump had earlier tweeted that New York should distribute the ventilators immediately. That statement came hours after Trump said in a Fox News interview that he doubted states calling for tens of thousands of ventilators would need them.

"Thousand of Federal Government (delivered) Ventilators found in New York storage," Trump tweeted Friday. "N.Y. must distribute NOW!"