A surge in demand for personal protective equipment in states with growing hospitalizations and cases could cause 'micro-shortages,' FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor told lawmakers.
A nurse holds up a sign to protest the lack of personal protective gear available at UCI Medical Center amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 3, 2020 in Orange, California. Hospitals nationwide are facing shortages of PPE due to the COVID-19 outbreak.The nation's top emergency official told lawmakers Wednesday that the U.S. could face shortages of personal protective equipment in areas with climbing Covid-19 cases, calling the reliance on overseas suppliers a "national security issue.
"We're in a much better place than we were coming out of March and April. However, we are not out of the woods completely with PPE," Gaynor told lawmakers. Gaynor told the committee that FEMA is still competing for the equipment, saying that other countries, governors, mayors and tribal leaders are searching for the same supplies. The U.S. doesn't manufacture most of the supplies but instead relies on countries in Asia, including China and Vietnam, to produce the equipment, Gaynor said.
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