Re:The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix
by Consultant32452 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:04AM
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What is your hypothesis on why the UK, Germany, France, Norway, Russia, China, etc. have all been relatively unable to dictate sufficient capacity into existence? Even if the US is uniquely sucking, why can't we just buy it from all these other countries which should hypothetically have been able to create production also?
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Re:The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix
by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:25AM
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They have been able to, and Chinese respirator masks in particular are abundantly available in the US. But they use different industrial standards, so the Chinese masks are KN95s, and some health organizations don't want to use them.
Re:The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix
by carabiner on Thursday September 24, 2020 @06:52PM
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For good reason: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/09/22/covid-...