Four months after it became clear that the U.S. would need an unprecedented amount of medical equipment to see its way through the pandemic, it's still not available
A health-care worker in Houston. Photo: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Back in April, after weeks of doctors, nurses, and other health-care workers wearing trash bags for gowns and using takeout containers as face masks, President Trump declared victory over the personal-protective-equipment shortage. Complaints about a lack of supplies, he said, were “fake news.” And by May, Trump said masks, gowns, gloves, and other necessities were in “tremendous supply to almost all places.
With the spike has come increased demand for PPE. One organization that donates PPE saw requests from Texas jump 11,000 percent in recent weeks, nurses across the country are being forced to reuse masks made for single use, and, with the reopening of schools looming, demand is only set to increase. None of this was hard to foresee, which makes the present state of things so maddening. Why isn’t supply meeting demand four months after it became clear how essential PPE is to fighting this pandemic?
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