PPE

While masks and other protective gear are crucial in the fight against COVID-19, they can have an incredibly damaging impact on the planet. The director of research at the conservation group Oceans Asia, Teale Phelps Bondaroff, joined LX News to discuss how massive numbers of face masks have been entering our oceans since the start of the pandemic.

“We were down to just a critical few days,” recalled Hartford HealthCare CEO Jeff Flaks. That was at the beginning of the pandemic. Flaks said doctors and nurses were using up personal protective equipment at such an alarming rate that Hartford HealthCare couldn’t keep up. “You have to prepare for a massive supply disruption,” Flaks said of the lesson learned...

Hartford HealthCare says it has accumulated a year’s supply of Personal Protective Equipment and gave NBC CT a look inside its warehouse on Friday.

Hartford HealthCare, which has administered more than 21,000 vaccines at seven centers statewide, spent more than $30 million on PPE in 2020, compared with $5 million in a typical year.

New York and New Jersey have declined to release detailed breakdowns of their spending on personal protective gear during the first frenzied months of the coronavirus outbreak

At the beginning of the pandemic personal protective equipment was in short supply and while things have largely improved there’s still a need out there.  “For health care workers who are fit tested we aren’t always able to find a specific N95 mask that they have been qualified and fit-tested for so then we find ourselves having to do...

Health Care Workers Continue to Have Great Need for PPE

Some lawmakers are urging the president to use the Defense Production Act to produce PPE to meet an expected sharp increase in demand as COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the country.

The demand for Personal Protective Equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented. And with experts saying that we are about to enter the most challenging months of the pandemic – lawmakers are calling on Congress to step up and use the Defense Production Act to make more PPE in America and nationalize distribution of it. “The demand has been…

The state of Connecticut is looking to purchase a 138,000-square-foot warehouse in Manchester to store PPE and other equipment.  “The leased facility that we’ve been using to store our PPE stockpile we have outgrown and we anticipate further issues based on testing stockpiles and other supplies that are coming in,” Josh Geballe, Gov. Ned Lamont’s chief operating officer, said. ...

With concerns over a second wave of COVID-19, the state is looking at purchasing a new warehouse for PPE storage.

Hartford Healthcare will kick off a massive statewide flu shot campaign Tuesday morning. The 10 a.m. virtual event will touch on several topics including preparing for a possible surge and avoiding the “Twindemic” of the flu and coronavirus. Healthcare experts said they have received a lot of questions and want to be clear and transparent. The conference will be streamed…

The owners of Bro’s Dough Pizzeria spent Sunday giving out supplies to students around the community.

The union that represents 10,000 home health care workers recently found out that the state will no longer be distributing PPE on a biweekly basis. That means regular shipment of gloves, gowns, surgical masks and face shields will be replaced with five cloth masks per quarter. “What I had to do yesterday was actually count out a supply so that…

Regular shipment of gloves, gowns, surgical masks and face shields the state was providing for home health care workers will be replaced with five cloth masks per quarter.

Some Connecticut lawmakers are pushing for a law that would eliminate the tax on masks used to slow the spread of COVID-19.

New York’s health agency is walking back a recent statement by the state’s top health official, who had cast doubt on reports from nurses about dire shortages of protective gear at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in late March and early April

With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations ticking upward in Massachusetts, health care workers are espressing concern about a second wave of COVID-19. The 7-day weighted average of positive coronavirus tests increased to 2.2% from 1.7% in mid-July, according to the Department of Public Health. Health officials reported two new deaths and 338 new cases in Massachusetts Wednesday. More than 111,000 people…

Teachers need pencils, crayons, glue sticks … and plexiglass.

Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of AHCA/NCAL speaks to the devastating impact Covid-19 continues to have at long-term care nursing facilities across the country as they run low on staff and PPE.