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How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags?
"What they did not foresee was that the federal government might never come to the rescue."

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The first large U.S. government order to the big U.S. producer 3M, for a hundred and seventy-three million dollars’ worth of N95 masks, was not placed until March 21st.
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All of this was predicted. On February 13th, the Center for Global Development, a nonpartisan Washington

think tank, warned in a report about the “urgent but closing window” for the U.S. government to prepare, , including specifically recommending an immediate review of the P.P.E. supply chain;