PPE

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.

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,...

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.

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.

This past fall, volunteers with Save the Sound picked up 441 pieces of PPE across more than 100 miles in Connecticut.

This past fall, volunteers with Save the Sound picked up 441 pieces of PPE across more than 100 miles in Connecticut.

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

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…

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.

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.

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.