"The news agency found that not a single shipment of medical-grade N95 masks arrived at U.S. ports during the month of March... Federal agencies waited until mi

"The news agency found that not a single shipment of medical-grade N95 masks arrived at U.S. ports during the month of March... Federal agencies waited until mid-March to begin placing bulk orders for the urgently needed supplies... The first large U.S. government order ... was not placed until March 21st—the same day that Ries got his first phone call about the Kushner effort. The order... did not even require the supplies to be delivered until the end of April" (emphasis mine, edited for length) Though the article goes into more detail to the question that the title asks, I thought this part was pertinent. How did we end up with nurses in garbage PPE? The same way they still are in them. The problems that existed a month ago still exist today and are likely to continue to exist.