Nashville COVID-19 nurse becomes COVID-19 patient, fighting for his life at St. Thomas West

A twitter thread to remind us to thank those working to save lives

‘Tired to the bone’: Hospitals overwhelmed with virus cases

Trump admin is ‘woefully behind’ in stockpiling medical gloves as Covid-19 surges

Hospitals overwhelmed: Exhausted staffs, surging COVID-19 cases push nation’s limits

$2 Million in Funds Earmarked for COVID-19 Went to Buy Army Greens Uniforms

FEMA says it has no answers on FEMA’s distribution of PPE from national stockpile

Despite months of warning, the US could soon run out of gloves, goggles, and body bags as coronavirus cases keep surging

Trump administration’s delayed use of 1950s law leads to critical supplies shortages

Respiratory Therapist in Dallas Dies After Contracting COVID-19

We are right back where we started!

Internal document reveals federal plan to ask nurses to reuse masks

Trump Team Killed Rule Designed To Protect Health Workers From Pandemic Like COVID-19

How Tea Party Budget Battles Left the National Emergency Medical Stockpile Unprepared for Coronavirus

3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks. Weeks Later, They All Were Dead.

U.S. companies kept shipping masks overseas even as hospitals ran out and despite warnings

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Begging for Thermometers, Body Bags, and Gowns: U.S. Health Care Workers Are Dangerously Ill-Equipped to Fight COVID-19

The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE

Some states receive masks with dry rot, broken ventilators

Federal government spent millions to ramp up mask readiness, but that isn’t helping now

February 7, 2020:

WHO warns of PPE shortage; nCoV pace slows slightly in China

February 25th May Be a Day that will live in Infamy!

AMERICA HAS 30 MILLION MASKS, NEEDS 300 MILLION FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS FIGHTING CORONAVIRUS, HHS SECRETARY SAYS

The issue of masks came up multiple times during the health secretary’s testimony before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, as senators pushed for concrete information as to whether America was prepared to respond to the outbreak. Azar acknowledged that the U.S. had a stockpile of supplies, but that the current inventory was inadequate.

“We currently have 30 million N95 respirators in the strategic national stockpile,” Azar said. “[HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response] Dr. Kadlec mentioned to the Senate this morning needing approximately 300 million for health care workers.”

Coronavirus Emails: Federal Official Warned of Mask & Glove Shortages a Month Ago

““We should plan assuming we won’t have enough PPE—so need to change the battlefield and how we envision or even define the front lines,” Dr. Carter Mecher, a physician and senior medical adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs, wrote on Feb. 25. It would be weeks before front-line health workers would take to social media with the hashtag #GetMePPE and before health systems would appeal to the public to donate protective gear.”

NOW:

33 times Trump downplayed the coronavirus

We Know where the masks are going President Trump!

‘This system is doomed’: Doctors, nurses sound off in NBC News coronavirus survey

THIS THREAD:

This is CRIMINAL!

This might make you mad?

Doctor: State advises using diapers to protect from virus

“NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The state Department of Health is advising doctors to use diapers and swim goggles to protect their faces if they cannot obtain personal protective equipment due to shortages related to the COVID-19 outbreak, a Tennessee doctor said Thursday.”  

“The state Health Department, in a weekly webinar on the virus, has suggested doctors use bandannas, scarves and even diapers in place of face masks and swim goggles or safety goggles in place of eye shields.”

THIS IS INSANE!

You can be perfect 99.9% of the time but that 0.1% can KILL you or someone else!

I’m From Tennessee. The State’s Coronavirus Response Is Both Frightening and Embarrassing.

Kentucky governor warns residents not to travel to Tennessee during COVID-19 outbreak

Graph comparing Ky. and Tenn. coronavirus responses goes viral

Homemade face masks: Why they may not protect you from coronavirus

How Safe Is Your Beard from Coronavirus?

More than 150 employees at 4 Boston hospitals have tested positive for coronavirus

Your hoarding could cost me my life — a doctor’s view from the coronavirus front lines

MORE THAN 50 DOCTORS IN ITALY HAVE NOW DIED FROM CORONAVIRUS

Scramble for medical equipment descends into chaos as U.S. states and hospitals compete for rare supplies

“Soaring demand and competitive bidding is driving prices up. Premier, a health-care company that purchases equipment and supplies for 4,000 acute-care hospitals, used to pay about 30 cents for an N95 mask but is now seeing prices between $3 and $15 per mask, Group Vice President Chaun Powell said in an interview.”

Gouged prices, middlemen and medical supply chaos: Why governors are so upset with Trump

A company is marketing trendy N95 masks on Facebook and Instagram, flouting bans against ads for personal masks on the platforms

February 25th!

AMERICA HAS 30 MILLION MASKS, NEEDS 300 MILLION FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS FIGHTING CORONAVIRUS, HHS SECRETARY SAYS

YET

When the “Defense Production Act” was first mentioned I tweeted how Trump will never invoke it! DONORS Trump People since 2010 – ask Keith Olbermann.

A TIMELINE:

We are 800,000 short on ventilators too!