Why are some parts of the US facing a PPE shortage?

Dr. Todd Ellerin explains some of the contributing factors to the PPE shortage.

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[SSRIs]

When will we stop depending on China so much!!?!? Open up plants in America & pay the workers!!! This is ridiculous

[norasikinishak]

Hopefully this pandamic will in Malaysia also face the same situation...luckily the problem of ppe is solved because we are not depended on imported ppe...our local fashion industry willingly to donate by raising funds from public, the group of students sew it, the prisoners sew it, the ordinary people also contributed in sewing ppe..even at the beginning the frontliners also see their own ppe...hope everything will back to normal let's pray for it..sorry for my bad english

[pamelah]

I never liked how a lot of our stuff comes from China

[bekindandyouwillgofar]

Im a nurse. History may frown upon some in the profession WASTING PPE on tik toks, and protest. When for the first time ever all visitors cant be in the hospitals, and we didnt allow families to see there loved one's die. ALL PPE is precious and i hate seeing N95s not being used for direct patient care during a pandemic

[Jesus.loves.you.]

I don't know how practical it is to manufacture the PPE domestically when the prices are way higher than other countries that would bring up the hospital expenses and eventually bring up patients medical bills.

The better way is to stock up the PPE for a year's or even two year's uses.

[brookem.]

I'd like to know how many healthcare workers have been laid off. I have several people I have talked to who live in different areas of the u.s. and they all were laid off. Why during a time like this would they be letting healthcare workers go?

[kalahmuh]

where are those famous hollywood celebrity that can share their belssings..

[jamesoxford]

complete and total incompetence from the executive branch was and still is a major contributing factor.

[tonysmith]

Stupid mayors & Governors did not prepare that's why

[spzaruba]

There is a 10, 000% percent jump in global need. So 1) Countries are going to sell local 1st, 2) governments like the CCP are going to seize stock, 3) people are hoarding, and 4) factories aren't ready.

[underestimatedsmilin]

If they knew then why didn't they prep for it...😷

[CTOInformation]

the U.S. economy was already heading for a recession and that the coronavirus pandemic has acted like a “pin” that burst nearly all of the bubbles that I was warning about.

[wt]

Only the government has the power to dictate the supplies and the wholesale channels to prevent the massive shortages during pandemic disaster.

[Spidey-cwkd]

Ques- Now the question arises how do we get to know whether a person is a patient of
corona virus or covid?
There is only one way-rtPCR Test-Reverse transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Test- a test kit by
which you can diagnose whether a patient has contracted coronavirus or not. Whenever a machine or
gadget is bought, whether car, camera or laptop, a manufacture’s manual is provided. Similarly, when a
rtPCR kit is bought, a manufacturer’s manual will be provided. If you look at the manual it clearly says
under Regulatory Status – ‘For Research Use Only, Not For Use In Diagnostic Purpose.
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It is very clearly mentioned that it is only for research and not to be used for diagnostic purpose. This is
the manufacturer’s mandate. Not only the manufacturer’s mandate, it has also been said by the
inventor of this kit, Kary Mullis, who is a Noble Prize winner
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Why this is not for diagnostic purpose ? The answer to this question is that- specificity of this test kit is
at the most 99%. Specificity means that you can subject any random 100 healthy persons to undertake
this test, and then it will declare any one person as false-positive. This was proved on 18th March 2020
in Iceland. On the 18th this test
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was carried out on 1800 healthy people and 19 people were identified
as coronavirus patients. This is when the test kit was functional with full efficiency. If we listen to the
advice of White House then the coordinator of corona virus in the White House, Dr. Birx, is of the
opinion that the kit has 50% chance of proving false8.
That means every second test could be proved
wrong. For this very reason in Finland on 20th March, the health ministry in Finland, rejected this test
kit

[stuckathome]

If china didn’t recover so quickly the rest of the world would face PPE shortage much longer. Just hope for them to stay recovered

[Spidey-cwkd]

Similarly, when a
rtPCR kit is bought, a manufacturer’s manual will be provided. If you look at the manual it clearly says
under Regulatory Status – ‘For Research Use Only, Not For Use In Diagnostic Purpose.
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It is very clearly mentioned that it is only for research and not to be used for diagnostic purpose. This is
the manufacturer’s mandate. Not only the manufacturer’s mandate, it has also been said by the
inventor of this kit, Kary Mullis, who is a Noble Prize winner

[Spidey-cwkd]

breaking news CDC is forcing doctors to classify everything as coronavirus death

[Spidey-cwkd]

For instance, authors of a study published
in JAMA in 2006, in which PCR was used with a sample of almost 3, 000 people, concluded: “The PCR
assay is not sufficiently accurate to be used for the diagnosis of HIV infection without confirmation”
[(28), p. 803].
PCR technology evolved quickly since it was introduced in 1983 (25). Although being employed,
mostly, for assessing viral load (less for screening and diagnosis), it should give us pause to learn,
however, that Dr. Kary Mullis – the scientist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize for inventing the PCR test
and whose quote introduced this article (Table 1) – has strongly opposed using the technique for
determining the amount of virus circulating in plasma. Lauritsen explains:
Kary Mullis … is thoroughly convinced that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. With regard to the
viral-load tests, which attempt to use PCR for counting viruses, Mullis has stated: “Quantitative
PCR is an oxymoron.” PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature
is unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral-load
tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect free, infectious
viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some cases wrongly, to be unique
to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves [(29), p. 3].

[jwanie]

Dr. Ellerin really hit the nail on the head with everything he said. If the U.S. didn't learn their lesson then, they will

[invaderzim]

Let’s get politicians to produce the ppe. Ha that’s not going to happen