A national shortage of face masks has left hospitals and other companies scrambling for ways to build their own stockpiles.
There has been a shortage of N95 masks throughout the COVID-10 pandemic. While Trump Administration officials have denied any shortages exist, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently listed the masks on a medical supply shortage list.
The American Hospital Association, an industry trade group representing 5,000 hospitals and health care providers, has also said that a shortage of such masks continues to leave frontline medical workers without sufficient protection. N95 mask shortages compelled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to direct health care providers to re-use the masks even though they're supposed to be discarded after seeing a single patient. Re-use increases the risk of contamination and makes it harder to quantify how widespread the mask shortage actually is.Sam Panthaky / AFP/GettyPresident Donald Trump has reportedly tried to increase mask production in the U.S.
But while mask manufacturers have recieved government contracts to help make up the difference, the number of available masks still hasn't met the nation's medical needs. "I'm frustrated that there appears to be no national strategy," Larry Hall, former the director of the Defense Production Act program at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told theThe shortage has left individual states, companies and hospital networks scrambling to find their own stockpiles of masks and other personal protective equipment to help medical workers avoid infection.
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