President Trump and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have called the coronavirus crisis a “war,” and the nation is plainly now experiencing something like the “fog of war”: huge uncertainty and poor information as countless actors scramble to handle a host of issues.

That fog is nowhere more apparent than in the uncertainty around whether hospitals and medical professionals will get the life-saving supplies they need before they’re overwhelmed. It will clearly be close, which explains the tough language a clearly frustrated Cuomo used Tuesday.

The gov says New York will need 30,000 ventilators in the coming weeks, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency has only committed to sending 400. “You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators?” Cuomo fumed. “What are we going to do with 400 ventilators?” And: “You pick the 26,000 people who are going to die.”

Vice President Mike Pence said Tuesday, “The national stockpile has some 20,000 ventilators and we’ve been making them available” where most needed — especially New York, which he called the “epicenter” of the crisis. Yes, it’s confusing.

The feds are moving: FEMA announced Tuesday it would use the Defense Production Act that Trump invoked last week to get 60,000 testing kits. And it’s distributing some 6.5 million masks it’s been donated.

Here in New York, though, the latest stats show confirmed cases still soaring, especially in the city. What was coming like a “freight train” now looks more like a “bullet train,” Cuomo warned Tuesday. Yet, “I can’t find any more equipment.”

One cause for hope: The fog also obscures help that’s on the way. Independent producers are massively ramping up US production of gowns, gloves, testing kits and ventilators, with no one able to track the totals.

At this point, people out on the sharp end are left crossing their fingers that enough help arrives in time.