Ventilators, masks, gloves and other supplies American hospitals need are produced in China, Italy, Malaysia and elsewhere. That puts the U.S. at a disadvantage in its fight against COVID-19. We’ll look through the supply chain and potential solutions. Plus: the new lifestyles of working parents and the non-traditional workers being hit especially hard by this crisis.
Those medical supplies hospitals need? They’re overseas.
An employee controls surgical masks at a leather workshop turned into a mask factory, close to Vigevano, Lombardy, on March 19, 2020 during the country’s lockdown within the new coronavirus pandemic. - A crafts company specialized in the production of leather goods and accessories for the automotive and clothing sector, has now turned its activity to the production of surgical masks on behalf of a company from the nearby town of Galliate, in the wake of the needs following the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)
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