Published Mar 26, 2020
hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I
4 Articles; 5,187 Posts
So I guess that most over 95% of PPE equipment is manufactured in China. This may explain why there is such a shortage. Manufacturing ground to a halt and their supply on hand was being kept for their own use. Now that their crisis has leveled out they are again manufacturing for export. We should be seeing some masks soon......
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/distributors-are-racing-to-import-n95-masks-from-china.html