Thread by @rgoodlaw

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I just published with @mbendernyc:

Lots in here....

1. NEW: Hospital administrators in at least three states telling staff not to take precautions to prevent exposure to of #COVIDー19 (gloves, masks) due to #PPEshortage

#GetMePPE
justsecurity.org/69283/war-with…

2. Trump administration itself KNEW long in advance there'd be #PPEshortage.

Read the #CrimsonContagion report of 2019👇
Read the National Biodefense Strategy of 2018👇

BOTH highlighted need to surge PPE capacity in event of pandemic. Trump team didn't follow through.

3. We quote interviews with top pandemic control experts @juliettekayyem @JeremyKonyndyk (on @deepstateradio podcast with @djrothkopf and me).

Kayyem and Konyndyk also explain how administration should have known of medical shortages well ahead of time.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wev…

4. We explain how some hospital staff are being told to conserve resources and, in turn, fail to protect themselves from #COVIDー19 in tension with current CDC guidance.

But get this: CDC suggests how to use BANDANAS and SCARVES instead of hospital masks in its updated guidance!

5. One major point we make:

The whole idea of #flatteningthecurve is to try to save the capacity of the healthcare system.

But the failure to protect frontline medical personnel is hollowing out the healthcare system from within.

#GetMePPE #PPEshortage

6/6. Imagine if a wartime president failed to provide troop safety in battle.

In 2004, a scout confronted Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on such shortages—it was a turning point.👇

A senior Trump official should meet with frontline medical staff.

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