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In that interview it does seem that there’s spare capacity and that the CEO simply doesn’t wish to be burned by misreading the market as happened before in comp
by threatofrain 7y ago
In that interview it does seem that there’s spare capacity and that the CEO simply doesn’t wish to be burned by misreading the market as happened before in company history. The CEO goes on to note that he has warned the national government many times, and that an urgency on their part is no emergency for him.
> anyone with any ability to produce masks, is already doing so at full rate.
- paranoidrobot 7y agoThe wired article doesn't go into too much detail - I forget which one I read that went into a bit more detail, but NPR has more information[1] It's clear that he doesn't have any additional capacity to turn on. [1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/05/811387424/face-masks-not-enough-are-made-in-america-to-deal-with-coronavirus https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/05/8113874...