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Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers by ajoy on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:53PM (#22621631)
The US spends so much money on defense and making sure soldiers are prepared for war.

Right now, our soldiers in this war are our frontline medical staff. Nurses and doctors putting their lives on the line to help the ones in need.

But instead we have this :

Hospital Workers Make Masks From Office Supplies Amid U.S. Shortage (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/hospital-...)

Doctors in New York treating coronavirus patients reusing masks (https://www.businessinsider.com/doctors-new-york-treating-co...)

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Re:Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers by markkvdb on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:25PM (#22621968)
Mask shortages are showing up all over Europe too. France and The Netherlands already started shutting down general practitioner offices due to a lack of protective gear. A month ago the WHO already warned for this shortage (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/who-warns-glob...)

It's kind of heart-breaking to see people wearing the N95 masks on the streets, while hospitals are having a hard time to find sufficient protective gear to keep the hospital afloat.

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