America is running short on masks, gowns and gloves. Again

Health-care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are encountering shortages of masks, gowns, face shields and gloves — a frustrating recurrence of a struggle that haunted the first months of the crisis.

Massive Technologies provides quality protective masks for small hospital group in Fitchburg, Massachusetts

"As a regional medical organization in Massachusetts, we are left to our own devices to secure PPE products for our nurses and doctors battling the COVID-19 pandemic," says John DeMalia, President and CEO of Community Health Connections. "We learned about Massive Technologies through a trusted associate, and understandably had concerns about paying upfront for these respirator masks.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo orders all people to wear masks in public

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he is ordering all people to wear a face covering while in public as the state works to combat the nation’s worst coronavirus outbreak.

Pillowcase masks and trash-bag gowns. The bleak, deadly reality in California nursing homes

The masks are long gone, replaced by face covers fashioned from pillowcases. Cleaning supplies are dwindling. And when Maria Cecilia Lim, a licensed vocational nurse at an Orange County nursing home, needs a sterile gown, she reaches for a raincoat bought off the rack by desperate co-workers

US coronavirus death count likely an underestimate. Here's why

Health experts are warning the national count of Covid-19 deaths in the United States could be underestimated as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread.

10,000 FFP2 masks at ASL CN1 from the Sordella di Fossano Foundation

10,000 FFP2 masks at ASL CN1 from the Sordella di Fossano Foundation ShareFacebookTwitterPrintWhatsAppEmail Imported directly from China for a value of approximately 30 thousand euros

CDC: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators: Crisis/Alternate Strategies

When N95 Supplies are Running Low These crisis capacity or alternate strategies accompany and build on the conventional and contingency capacity strategies.

Facts Tell: China's coronavirus test kits have high error rate? The answer is 'no'

Several labs of large hospitals in Spain have reported high error rates of China-supplied fast test kits for the novel coronavirus, Spanish newspaper El Pais said on Thursday.

Asia may have been right about coronavirus and face masks

Asia may have been right about coronavirus and face masks, and the rest of the world is coming around

The Real Reason to Wear a Mask

If you feel confused about whether people should wear masks and why and what kind, you’re not alone. COVID-19 is a novel disease and we’re learning new things about it every day.

U.S. Food & Drug AdministrationChina Has ‘Nationalized’ Its N95 Mask Makers

“All of our orders, for millions of N95 masks, were canceled last week,” says Leo Friedman, CEO of iPromo in Chicago, who has been importing tens of millions of masks all month. “They were for hospitals and state governments. We told them last week that we can’t get them.”