Stories tagged: "personal protective equipment"


In this photo taken Saturday, June 27, 2020, medical personnel prepare to test hundreds of people lined up in vehicles in Phoenix's western neighborhood of Maryvale in Phoenix for free COVID-19 tests organized by Equality Health Foundation, which focuses on care in underserved communities. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Months Into the Pandemic, Hospital Workers Are Still Reusing Masks and Gowns

“We remain participants in an unnecessary, chaotic, 50-state scramble to secure badly needed PPE,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wrote.

President Donald Trump speaks after a tour of Owens & Minor Inc., a medical supply company, Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Allentown, Pa. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Top Scientists Issue Urgent Warning About Need to Replenish National Stockpile to Fight Coronavirus

If the national stockpile is not replenished by September, the scientists warned that the U.S. stands to repeat the “extraordinary shortage of supplies” experienced in March and April.

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Ford Won’t Require Trump to Wear a Mask When He Visits Ypsilanti Plant

Masks are required in Michigan. Ford requires visitors to wear masks. But here’s why President Trump may not protect himself and others while touring the Rawsonville plant Thursday.

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Trump Ignored Warnings from Health Experts. Now Nurses and Doctors Are at Risk.

The Trump administration’s failure to stock up on masks and other PPE before the pandemic has left front-line medical workers at risk.

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7 States Partner to Get Medical Supplies After Trump Told Them They’re On Their Own

“We can work together to provide the things that we need to allow our healthcare system to have the capacity it needs to fight this fight,” Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said.

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Trump Told States to Get Their Own Medical Supplies. Then the Feds Started Seizing Them.

An account published in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals the lengths American hospital systems and states have had to go to in order to try and prevent the Trump administration from commandeering life-saving medical supplies.

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While Trump Failed to Add Masks to the National Stockpile, He Encouraged Companies to Sell Them to China

American hospitals have for weeks faced “severe” and “widespread” shortages of masks, ventilators, and other medical supplies.