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Here are two looks inside the Strategic National Stockpile from NPR, the first from 2016. The first story reports the loss of 50,000 state and local health off
by 8bitsrule 7y ago
Here are two looks inside the Strategic National Stockpile from NPR, the first from 2016.
The first story reports the loss of 50,000 state and local health officials.
The second from Mar 2020, reported that the SNS 'currently holds about 30 million simple surgical masks and 12 million of the more protective N95 masks....' Compare those numbers to what's needed.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/27/483069862/inside-a-secret-government-warehouse-prepped-for-health-catastrophes https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/27/4830698...
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/814121891/why-even-a-huge-medical-stockpile-will-be-of-limited-use-against-covid-19 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/14/8141218...