Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire
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#2The ER docs at my wife’s hospital this morning were wearing pediatric masks with Disney characters emblazoned on them. And this is in a major suburban hospital.
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#3>“The federal government’s not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping,” Mr. Trump said. “You know, we’re not a shipping clerk.”
Hey, the guys not wrong, he's not a shipping clerk
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#4My sister's an ER doc in Baltimore and they're getting one mask per 12-hour shift. That quantity doesn't protect them from anything or their patients
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#5>“The federal government’s not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping,” Mr. Trump said. “You know, we’re not a shipping clerk.” Hey, the guys not wrong, he's not a shipping clerk
They do that for weapons, ammunition, food, clothing, etc, etc, etc.
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#8>“The federal government’s not supposed to be out there buying vast amounts of items and then shipping,” Mr. Trump said. “You know, we’re not a shipping clerk.” Hey, the guys not wrong, he's not a shipping clerk
They do that for weapons, ammunition, food, clothing, etc, etc, etc.
The interstates, rail networks, oh and THE USPS, which makes the federal government, literally a shipping clerk.
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#9There is reason to believe that the hospital mask shortage is due in no small part to employee (and patient/family) theft of masks and not necessarily due to dramatically increased need at hospitals (at least not yet).
I say this as a resident physician at an urban hospital in the US. We're now severely low on N95 masks and moderately low on surgical masks but we have only had less than a dozen confirmed covid-19 cases (granted about 100 tested negative cases) so there's no way even 100 additional patients requiring masks suddenly plummeted our stockpiles of masks. Indeed, hospital administration noticed and sent out a mass email imploring employees to return unused masks in personal possession.
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#10If this article was dated January I might care.
Everyone in the hospitals from nurses to management knew exactly what is coming but did nothing.
And nothing has even happened yet, wait till the virus actually arrives in a few weeks.
Did any hospital plan or ask for help properly? Did any nurses union raise the issue?
Anyway they have numerous studies from Africa where they can't afford equipment, rather than the lack of planning by people on half a million a year, to look at.