From the front page: As the coronavirus rages across the country, community health centers and small doctors’ offices, AIDS clinics and homeless shelters are struggling with a scarcity of protective gear to buffer workers from harm, their budgets and buying power unable to compete with large medical institutions.
Gloves and masks are in short supply, and many organizations are blowing through their budgets as they attempt to source in-demand equipment. “Of the facilities reporting a need for N95s to Get Us PPE in January, 86% said they are using the respirators at unsafe rates.”
