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Collected Item: “Hospitals struggle with PPE shortages amid new COVID-19 surges”

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Hospitals struggle with PPE shortages amid new COVID-19 surges

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Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are still struggling to find enough PPE to protect their workers. With supplies still being grossly under-available, some hospitals have had to resort to reusing PPE multiples times in an effort to provide at least some protection for their staff.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20200811224824/https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/hospitals-turn-to-reprocessing-to-shore-up-ppe-stockpile-as-covid-19-cases-rise

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Robert King

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2020-07-10
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