The reason for this global shortage is China was celebrating Chinese New Year, when every production simply stopped. It happens every February. And Covid-19 kicks in and workers are effectively locked in their towns and can not travel. Local governments organized some emergency hires from local but still struggles to meet the demand.
If Covid-19 happened in other months it would be totally different.
Nurses in China was also wearing garbage bags in February. There's a PPE shortage for >2 months
https://i.imgur.com/PgDWgs5.jpg
The reason for this global shortage is China was celebrating Chinese New Year, when every production simply stopped. It happens every February. And Covid-19 kicks in and workers are effectively locked in their towns and can not travel. Local governments organized some emergency hires from local but still struggles to meet the demand.
If Covid-19 happened in other months it would be totally different.