I believe the issue is two-fold. The Hospitals have contracts etc with GPOs that often require the hospital to make most if not all of their purchases (PPE and Drugs, there is some discussion about GPOs being partially to blame for drugs shortages). If those organizations are unable to source, or unwilling to source PPE (speculation - due to market value being over contract value?) then the hospitals receive a restricted supply e.g. a shortage.

The second axis is that this is not a situation that is generally known and hospital staff are generally underrepresented politically. To whom is the Nurse Assistant or LPN to complain to about their company practices? If you complain, you risk termination etc. Given that most took the vaccine the issue is partially mooted but still remains.

1) The vaccine doesn't prevent you from catching COVID19; it prevents symptoms. Your body fights it off. We know nothing about how it impacts long COVID or spread. I mean, we know it reduces them, but is it a 10% effect? 90%? If hospital staff are spreading COVID to patients, we've got a problem.

2) Vaccinated people in contact with non-vaccinated is how you get vaccine-resistant mutations.

We need vaccines and proper masks, especially in hospitals.

If there's an issue like that, it seems like an anonymous complaint might help. Letters to newspapers, regulators, and hospital leadership, all cc:ed so they know others have received them, outlining that:

- Proper masks are available: links to US plants having overstock, new technologies (e.g. Korean nanofiber)

- Used N95 masks don't work

- Reuse of N95 at the institution

That puts a lot of pressure on leadership to address the issue. Enforcement actions usually go nowhere if an issue was already resolved by the time the agency gets there, and it's a lot cheaper to deal with early rather than late.