“The limited availability of adequate PPE, such as masks, gowns and gloves, has raised concerns about whether our health care system is able to fully protect our health care workers,” senior ...

PPE usually covers your eyes, nose, mouth since it's easiest for germs to enter your body that way — and through your hands touching those areas. Masks, gowns and gloves are some of the most ...

With the fast spread of the new coronavirus, many hospitals are facing a shortage of personal protective equipment such as face masks, gowns, gloves and eye protection, forcing workers to have ...

One continuing shortage has been the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as face masks and protective gowns. As Andrew Jacobs described in December for The New York Times, frontline ...

As the number of coronavirus cases in the United States exponentially increased this week, health care workers sounded the alarm about shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE). Around the ...

The PPE used to prevent exposure includes gloves, boot coverings, gowns or coveralls, respirators (N95 masks or powered air-purifying respirators [PAPR]), hoods, aprons, and full face shields ...

decided that instead of wearing his gown, he would repurpose it as personal protective equipment (PPE) for other healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. This inspired him ...

Rather than letting his graduation gown go to waste, Moore, who is a physician assistant, decided to repurpose it as personal protective equipment for frontline health care workers fighting the ...

Assembly Bill 1113, introduced by California Assemblymember Mark González, stalled in the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, becoming a two-year bill and extending further decision making on the ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

PPE Medpro tried to sell the UK medical equipment with a safety report purportedly ... also alleges PPE Medpro provided 72 lots of gowns stamped with a CE mark, which verifies that a product ...

Of the remaining gowns supplied by Chemical Intelligence ... over the DHSC's handling of contracts for PPE and the use of public money to purchase equipment which has still not been released ...