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How Could the Richest Country in the World Run Out of Masks?

The United States is so bereft of masks that health care workers are reusing what they have for several days in a row. One reason for the shortage is that China, which manufactures many of the masks, slowed manufacturing and stopped shipping them to the U.S., as they saved them for their own country. But a huge problem is that the Strategic National Stockpile, which was never replenished after the H1N1 pandemic, was prepped for a bombing, not a pandemic. Source: The Atlantic April 10...