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  • In March, health-care facilities in the US began preparing for a predicted avalanche of cases of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus Hospital officials scrutinized their supplies of items like gloves and face masks and predicted a shortage Many pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE), like N95 masks, the tightly fitted respirators designed to filter at least 95% of small infectious particles, are cheap and readily available from distributors Under normal circumstances, hospitals have little need to keep large supplies of PPE on hand But 2 months ago, in the midst of a global pandemic, formerly reliable distribution channels had dried up Leaders at OhioHealth, which operates 12 hospitals in central Ohio, estimated that their existing supplies of the masks could be expended in a matter of weeks if they could not secure new shipments, according to Chris Clinton, who oversees the network’s supply chain operations
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  • C&EN_Global_Enterprise
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  • WHO
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  • Hospitals find ways to disinfect N95 face masks
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  • #221074
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  • 2020

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