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Re:Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire by fma on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:37AM (#22635238)
They aren't having trouble scaling up... They already have. 200 million masks a day, 20x in February.

If we (America) can't scale up we are in deep doodoo. Trump has been pissing off China by calling the Corona virus the "China Virus".

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Re:Doctors Say Shortage of Protective Gear Is Dire by generatorguy on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:51AM (#22635306)
200 million surgical masks but only 600k n95 masks, per the npr article gp linked to.

The machines to make the n95 masks take both the Germans and Chinese about 6 months to make.

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