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Efforts to Manufacture PPE in the US Falling Flat: ‘Nobody's Buying, Not Even the State'
The push to make personal protective equipment in the U.S. is running out steam after an initial surge at the start of the coronavirus pandemic
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Biden Announces Plan to Buy 500M More COVID Tests, Offer Free Masks
President Joe Biden detailed Thursday his administration’s efforts to double its procurement of rapid COVID-19 tests and make high-quality masks available for free as coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide.
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Indian Students in U.S. Raise Thousands For COVID Supplies
India has seen huge spikes in COVID-19 cases, with over 400,000 reported cases on some recent days. The spike has led to shortages of oxygen, personal protective equipment and other supplies. So students at many American universities got together to raise over 16 million rupees (over $200,000 US dollars) on GiveIndia.org to purchase those needed supplies.
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Be Selfless for Shellfish: Local Contest Encouraging Beach Clean Up
Face masks, gloves and other articles of Personal Protective Equipment have become such a normal part of our every day routine. But these safety items are ending up all across our state and causing serious harm.
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Be Selfless for Shellfish: Local Contest Encouraging Beach Clean Up
Face masks, gloves and other articles of Personal Protective Equipment have become such a normal part of our every day routine. But these safety items are ending up all across our state and causing serious harm. “There’s been an increase certainly in seeing PPE everywhere on the sides of streets, parking lots and very unexpected places,” explained Syma Ebbin,...
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Pandemic Pollution: Face Masks, Glove Litter CT's Public Spaces
This past fall, volunteers with Save the Sound picked up 441 pieces of PPE across more than 100 miles in Connecticut.
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More Than 400 Face Masks, Gloves Littered Connecticut's Public Spaces
This past fall, volunteers with Save the Sound picked up 441 pieces of PPE across more than 100 miles in Connecticut.
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2nd Grader Creates Charity to Bring PPE, Pandemic Supplies to Those in Need
Seven-year-old Oscar Drais created SAFE – short for Superheroes Are Found Everywhere – a charity to help collect pandemic supplies for those who need them
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Tracking COVID: Federal Government Releases New Data on Pandemic Response
The state of Connecticut shares a large set of COVID-19 data on a regular basis. Now the Biden administration has just begun releasing state and county level Covid data that the White House had been compiling since the pandemic began. The federal data is not necessarily different from the data the state shares, but compiles information from all the states…
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Do You Need to Wear Two Masks? Experts Weigh In
Earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, PPE shortages meant that many people were making cloth face coverings out of available fabrics, like T-shirts and bedsheets, or wearing bandanas. Not only are there now plenty of mask options out there, we have data on what materials and designs are most effective at blocking droplets and aerosolized particles.
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New Hope in CT with Personal Protective Equipment
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.
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New Hope in CT with Personal Protective Equipment
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.
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About 1.5 Billion Face Masks Likely Polluted Our Oceans in 2020, Oceans Asia Study Finds
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.
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After Nearly Running Out, Hartford HealthCare Stockpiles PPE
“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...
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Inside Hartford HealthCare's PPE Warehouse
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.
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New York, New Jersey Hide Full Details of Virus Spending
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
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Some PPE Still In Short Supply
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...
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Need for PPE Continues
Health Care Workers Continue to Have Great Need for PPE
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Lawmakers, Hospital Executives Call for PPE Stockpile
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…