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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 5:45pm  
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 5:56pm  
I mean, seeing lots of things like this. It doesn't seem like there is stuff just laying around waiting to be donated...?
 
Builders Called to Donate PPE
 
March 27, 2020 Covid-19, Featured, HomeAid Houston
 
Healthcare Workers Need Our Help
 
The shortage of masks and eye protection among healthcare workers is at a crisis level. Both the U.S. President and Vice President have called upon the construction industry to provide these items to the healthcare industry immediately.
 
In answer to the call, HomeAid Houston is asking for donations of masks, eye protection and other personal protective equipment (PPE). Thank you to David Weekley Homes and BMC for their leadership in organizing our local efforts.
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:16pm  
HumbleGirl : Have you seen any that state what items exactly Houston will be lacking to do the testing? Besides them using the generic term "PPE" ? I haven't found one yet.
 
@M1cha3lo0o : This article specifies masks, shields, and respirators.
 
www.houstonchronicle .com/news/houston-te xas/houston/article/ This-feels-like
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:19pm  
This article has a lot of detail and also talks about the requirement to keep counts secret which is probably why there's no list saying we need x of this and y of that.
 
www.texastribune.org /2020/03/13/2015-tex as-lawmakers-nixed-b ill-fight-disea
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~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:22pm  
M1cha3lo0o : This article specifies masks, shields, and respirators. www.houstonchronicle .com/news/houston-te xas/houston/article/ This-feels-like
 
@HumbleGirl : Wow, that was a good article. Glad to see more private companies pitch in.
I always wanted to get one of those 3D printers.
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:23pm  
Another good one
 
The problem is about both supply and demand. Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, China made half the world's face masks. When the outbreak took off there, China started to use its supply and hoard what remained. This problem has only spread since, as more and more countries hoard whatever medical supplies they can get - with some, like Germany, even banning most PPE exports. So as demand increased due to Covid-19 - not just from health care workers but from a general public increasingly scared of infection - there was less supply to go around.
 
www.vox.com/policy-a nd-politics/2020/3/2 7/21194402/coronavir us-masks-n95-re
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:26pm  
In a previously conducted federal simulation-
 
Among the many problems, the Times found, were "deficiencies 'in personal protective equipment use.'" The exercise found that the US didn't have the means to quickly produce more PPE. When states turned to the federal government for help in the exercise, there was "confusion" and "bureaucratic chaos" as requests and submissions hit multiple agencies at once.
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:26pm  
I ndeed, experts and advocates argue that the US generally underfunds disease outbreak preparedness and public health programs more broadly. It's these concerns that led the Obama administration, after the Ebola outbreak, to attempt to scale up preparedness by establishing a White House office dedicated solely to the issue and producing a 69-page playbook in case of an outbreak. The Trump administration, however, neglected and rolled back these efforts, eventually disbanding the White House office.
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:27pm  
As of earlier this month, the US had 12 million N95 respirators and 30 million surgical masks in its Strategic National Stockpile - which officials acknowledged was just 1 percent of what the country needed in a full-blown pandemic.
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:28pm  
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which is overseeing the response to the outbreak, said that federal agencies are "working to meet demands for personal protective equipment (PPE) through new acquisition, [Department of Defense] allocation, or Strategic National Stockpile sources."
 
But experts say the federal government isn't doing enough, with multiple people describing the current response as "a systemic failure." Local and state officials complain that they now have to outbid each other, as well as other countries and the federal government, to secure dwindling supplies, even if they need PPE more than other bidders.
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~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:29pm  
Another good one The problem is about both supply and demand. Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, China made half the world's face masks. When the outbreak took off there, China started to use its supply and hoard what remained. This problem has only spread since, as more and more countries hoard whatever medical supplies they can get - with some, like Germany, even banning most PPE exports. So as demand increased due to Covid-19 - not just from health care workers but from a general public increasingly scared of infection - there was less supply to go around. www.vox.com/policy-a nd-politics/2020/3/2 7/21194402/coronavir us-masks-n95-re
 
@HumbleGirl : Yeah i noticed that. Months ago when i was posting the daily death count from China i ordered me a few N95 masks and noticed the price already went up and the supply already went down ( one of my daughters have asthma ). Emoticon
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:30pm  
www.aamc.org/news-in sights/where-all-ppe
 
So, what were the blind spots in hospitals' plans? Orlowski believes one of the most significant involves supply chains - specifically, the large amount of critical medical supplies that are obtained from foreign manufacturers. This includes gowns, gloves, and N95 masks from China and testing swabs from Italy. "We really are a global economy, and once suppliers in China go down, how do we boost up suppliers in another part of the world?" she asks.
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~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:31pm  
I am surprised when they partially distributed the respirator supply out during H1N1 2009 that i never got restocked, that is like 10 years Emoticon
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HumbleGirl Active Indicator LED Icon 14 OP 
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:32pm  
I'd imagine HOUSTON will need similar amounts as NYC.
 
" New York City requested 2.2 million masks from the federal government but received only about 78,000 from the stockpile, all of which were expired. "The city is currently seeking 3 million N95 masks, 50 million surgical/face masks, 15,000 ventilators, 45 million face shields, 45 million surgical gowns, 45 million coveralls, and 45 million disposable gloves," the House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote to the Department of Health and Human Services in its March 21 letter.
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M1cha3lo0o Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 4 years ago   Mar 28, '20 7:49pm  
Those add up to more than what the pandemic-influenza-strategy-2005 even recommended, i think 100 million.
But the sad thing is all this time not once has anyone followed up on the recommendations or came anywhere near those numbers. Emoticon
 
www.cdc.gov/flu/pand emic-resources/pdf/p andemic-influenza-st rategy-2005.pdf
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