The Pennsylvania Department of Health maintained that such equipment is still readily available, but doctors say the public is soaking up supplies that don't help healthy people to ward off the coronavirus without special fitting.
A majority of hospitals have not exhausted supplies of N95 masks and other gear which keeps health workers from breathing in coronavirus particles from infected patients - but that may soon change as cases increase both state and nationwide.
"Doing those conservation techniques helps us expand our capacity to make those masks last if there is a slowdown in the supply chain," Ross told the Pennsylvania news outlets in articlesDr. Arvind Venkat, president of the Pennsylvania College of Emergency Physicians joined several top health officials in warning that workers exposed to infected patients are very much at daily risk, particularly without the necessary equipment being purchased by fearful members of the public.
Earlier this month, the federal Department of Health and Human Services Agency reported the U.S. had only about 1 percent of the N95 masks needed in case of a"full-blown pandemic." But last Thursday, Health Secretary Rachel Levine told the Pennsylvania publications that the state had a"significant" stockpile of respirators and was ready for a surge in coronavirus patients.
"I help run a nonprofit clinic for uninsured and undocumented patients in Philly. We have no more masks. Need recs on how to manage patients and clinic,"
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