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2020-04-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Strategic National Stockpile nearly out of coronavirus N95 masks, other protective equipment, HHS says

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#1 Federal stockpile of protective equipment is nearly EMPTY, HHS admits - and Congress warns states are now stuck in bidding wars to get masks and gowns

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-09 10:01|| 2020-04-09 10:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Nikki Haley, in op-ed, says coronavirus response mainly governors' responsibility, not Trump's

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-09 10:01|| 2020-04-09 10:01|| Front Page Top

#3 U.S. to seize exports of masks and gloves amid coronavirus crisis

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-09 10:03|| 2020-04-09 10:03|| Front Page Top

#4 All those Chinese lawn chairs don't look like such a good deal now. And I still won't vote for Haley.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-09 10:19|| 2020-04-09 10:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Thanks Comrade Barack! From >100 million to 12 million masks during his administration.

Posted by Cholutch Shereper2174 2020-04-09 10:29|| 2020-04-09 10:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Federal contracting records show HHS made a $4.8 million order of N95 masks on March 12, followed by a $173 million order on March 21, but those contracts don’t require the manufacturer to start making deliveries to the national stockpile until the end of April, after the White House has projected the pandemic will reach its peak.

Because the money-grubbing contractors should have been forced to produce them in a week. Besides, the deadly pandemic was forecast to run well into the summer at the time of the order. At worst, they'll restock the national stockpile.

Posted by Bobby 2020-04-09 10:52|| 2020-04-09 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 It's a given there will be an oversupply od masks and toilet paper in August.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-09 12:20|| 2020-04-09 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 It's a given there will be an oversupply od masks and toilet paper in August.

Because there will be fewer people.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-09 14:47|| 2020-04-09 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Obama used up 100 million of them during the 2009 Flu pandemic. He had 8 years to replace them, and never did.

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-04-09 22:36|| 2020-04-09 22:36|| Front Page Top

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