First 'caught with our pants down' in prep for pandemic, now dragging feet to approve COVID-19 mask
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It’s hardly a secret that officials have failed to adequately respond to and prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic. Now—as if the United States is in any position to decline resources to help prevent the spread of the virus—the federal government is refusiFirst 'caught with our pants down' in prep for pandemic, now dragging feet to approve COVID-19 mask
It’s hardly a secret that officials have failed to adequately respond to and prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic. Now—as if the United States is in any position to decline resources to help prevent the spread of the virus—the federal government is refusing a type of mask hospitals could use to protect doctors and nurses, according to BuzzFeed News. Tom Inglesby, a public health director at Johns Hopkins University, warned a Senate committee in 2018 that the country needed to prepare for worst-case public health scenarios. “The nation is not ready to provide medical care in large catastrophes or big epidemics of contagious disease,” he said. “There is no surge plan for taking care of larger numbers of patients with contagious, potentially lethal infectious diseases.” Read more