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What’s the situation with #PPE in other countries?

Let’s start with the US.

Here’s a report from March showing how short the States is of PPE:

time.com/5805557/homema…
Here’s the CDC suggesting PPE should be reused:

cdc.gov/niosh/topics/h…

Here’s healthcare workers protesting about the lack of PPE

cbsnews.com/news/health-ca…
ITALY

Here’s healthcare workers in Italy about the lack of PPE over there:

And an article blaming the lack of PPE in Italy as a reasons for high levels of infection by hospital staff:

icn.ch/news/high-prop…

independent.co.uk/news/health/co…
SPAIN

Here’s Spanish health workers showing how they make their own PPE.

There are also reports that Spain’s biggest medical union are issuing lawsuits against the Spanish government for failure to provide correct equipment.

nytimes.com/video/world/eu…
FRANCE

Here’s Macron apologising for the situation in France vowing to build up their own production of masks.

reuters.com/article/us-hea…
INDIA

A powerhouse of PPE production desperately struggling for PPE

uk.reuters.com/article/uk-hea…
CHINA

The GMC report that China had insufficient PPE at the height of its own crisis

pulsetoday.co.uk/clinical/clini…
Here’s the WHO laying bare the critical worldwide situation with PPE supplies:

cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…

“Demand is 100 times higher than normal -4-6 month delay”
Whilst some aren’t keen on news reports the trend is undoubtedly & overwhelmingly clear:

1) No country has had sufficient stockpiles of PPE for this crisis including this countries who manufacture the most of it.

2) worldwide demand is currently unprecedented
Against this backdrop we have to put into context the UK’s position.

Then we have to weigh up the gormless howls of the gotcha seeking, underprepared & loathsomely self important (you know who I’m talking about) journalists when scream:

“Sort the PPE out”!
I’d simply ask them to explain how, precisely, they would do that given this background situation.

Until they show a modicum of knowledge on the subject it’s safe to treat their pontificating & grandstanding on the subject with the contempt it deserves. Junk journalism #PPE
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Why did I write my #PPE thread?

Because I found myself screaming at the tv everytime some smug journalist came on it, pontificating & criticising about a subject, not just that they clearly had no idea about, but that they didn’t show any interest in finding out about either.
Isn’t that what journalism is? To research & find out about a subject so that they can then ask searching questions from a position of knowledge & inform their audience?

Instead all we get is banal & vacuous questioning designed not to inform but to secure a scoop, or gotcha.
But these are the self same journalists who, had this or any government, stockpiled 30,000 ventilators at £20k a pop and a couple of billion quids worth of PPE that had then sat idle for years doing nothing screeched “outrageous waste” “scandal” “resign minister”.
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Following on from yesterday’s mega thread about #PPE, here’s a little bit more information regarding gloves.

According to a GOSH’s Gloves are off campaign the NHS last year used 1.4bn gloves.

1/?
According to the government they have released 370 million PAIRS to the NHS.

Rubber gloves are usually sold in singles so if we assume gov info is correct then that’s 740 million gloves.

Or approximately 50% of NHS annual usage.

2/?
We need to know for certain whether we are dealing in pairs or singles but that’s 6 months normal usage delivered.

We really need to know how long those will last.

3/?
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I’m fed up of reading drivel about PPE so thought I’d do a thread with my two cents.

For information, I worked in the PPE for many years (admittedly over 15 years ago) today work with a number of importers of safety products getting their products online.
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A bit of background - since the 60’s & 70’s PPE has been manufactured abroad. Initially this was done through Hong Kong but then moved to China after 1997.

The main manufacturing areas for disposable gloves is Malaysia & PPE generally, China.
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Over time this accelerated so, at least when I was in the game, the only manufacturer of this kind of PPE left in the U.K. was JSP (famous for their hard hats) BUT even they imported the bulk of their masks from China.
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