{"id":15528,"date":"2020-03-23T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15528"},"modified":"2020-03-23T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:39:33","slug":"with-medical-safety-gear-scarce-the-public-is-stepping-up-heres-help-on-ways-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15528","title":{"rendered":"With Medical Safety Gear Scarce, The Public Is Stepping Up. Here\u2019s Help On Ways To Help"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Barbara Feder Ostrov for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Increasingly desperate pleas from health care workers and public authorities for donations of face masks and other protective gear are an unsettling sign of just how unprepared American hospitals are for the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Dr. Alison Cooke, assistant chief of hospital medicine for Kaiser Permanente-San Francisco, warned recently that her institution had less than a week\u2019s supply of medical masks for doctors and nurses. \u201cIf you have any masks or safety goggles at home, please consider giving them to your nurse and doctor neighbors,\u201d she wrote on the neighborhood social networking site Nextdoor.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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