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3M and the various US surgical mask manufacturers have been ramping up production since, if I remember rightly, January, but that's not enough to cope with even
by makomk 7y ago
3M and the various US surgical mask manufacturers have been ramping up production since, if I remember rightly, January, but that's not enough to cope with even the normal demand for them let alone the extra supplies needed due to the coronavirus.
- wbl 7y agoWith the Feds helping and mandating setup of new lines and paying for them so much more could have happened.
- jtdev 7y agoThere’s zero evidence that I can find showing that a single N95 mask is actually currently manufactured in the U.S. Quote from a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal article related to the mask manufacturing ramp up at 3M for COVID19: “‘We're seeing increased demand for our respiratory protection products, and we're ramping up our production worldwide, in China, around the world to meet that demand.’ (Mike Roman, 3M CEO)” [0] Nothing about that statement gives me any confidence that a single 3M N95 mask is produced in the U.S. In fact, it sounds downright evasive to me. [0] https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/01/29/3ms-china-business-was-sluggish-coronavirus-could.html https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2020/01/29/3ms-c...