Chinese docs are wearing these & U.S. and nurses docs are begging for them.
👉DuPont tells @NBC exclusively: Help is on the way -- but it’s up to FEMA to manage it.
👉DuPont tells @NBC exclusively: Help is on the way -- but it’s up to FEMA to manage it.
Also, one FL doc w a connection in China, where the suits are made, is stepping in:
"I'm a physician. I'm an EMS guy, & here I am forced to do this," he said. In Shanghai, even airport workers are using the suits.
"People are pleading, begging, just for anything. This is how
"I'm a physician. I'm an EMS guy, & here I am forced to do this," he said. In Shanghai, even airport workers are using the suits.
"People are pleading, begging, just for anything. This is how
bad it's gotten," said Antevy, adding that a close doctor friend is ill and on a ventilator.
In NY, we've already seen pics of nurses wearing trash bags as substitutes.
In NY, we've already seen pics of nurses wearing trash bags as substitutes.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News, David Domnisch, global business director for DuPont personal protection, said they created a "brand new, expedited" supply chain. The suits will b flown back to the U.S. from subcontractors in SE Asia, instead of shipping them.
Roughly 300 pallets, or more than 350,000 suits, will flow into the U.S. national stockpile starting Friday and "continue every Friday until this ends," Domnisch said.
As many workers in China return to the job, reports out of Europe suggest that thousands of doctors and nurses are still falling ill, hampering their ability to contain the virus and treat the sick. In hard-hit Italy, 20% of health care workers in the Lombardy region are infected
