My nephew is doing his residency at a large hospital in Boston

[jpak]

They don't have masks, gowns or gloves.

They had a handful of test kits until last week.

New kits came in, but they ran out of swabs and now can't use them!

[CrispyQ]

1. Test kits I can see, but they don't have masks, gowns or gloves?

Many years ago I read that our health system was not at all prepared to deal with a national health crisis, in that we didn't have enough stock of basic supplies, equipment, and medicines. Maybe we needed a few more government regs on how much backstock our health system should have? Oh well, probably wouldn't have mattered. In the past three years, the Con would have reversed any regs and let Jared sell off the backstock for profit.

[dalton99a]

2. They're rationing masks to staff at many places

The worst shortage is in rural clinics and hospitals

[Maraya1969]

3. That is amazing. There is a link somewhere where people who can sew are being asked

to make masks - cloth ones. But here is a Youtube video about how to make one using just paper towels and some other things from the kitchen.

[snowybirdie]

4. My granddaughter

is a nurse intake person at a KP clinic. They have no masks. Saving what they have for positive patients. Unbelievable!

[getagrip_already]

5. the cdc just approved using scarves as masks.....

Wish I was kidding......