Hospitals are asking for donations of masks and other essential PPE

This is a pretty bad take

What an idiot

I'm shipping out masks today for some nurse friends. I always keep some to cut grass. Seems they need them more than me at the moment.

I think sending to the nurses directly is the right thing to do. I'll be damned if i'd donate them to a hospital though. They can afford N95 masks

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Huey Lewis

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Wow.

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Some of you guys on here, are scarier dumb than the virus itself.

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Some of the true colors of posters here are pretty shocking.

"frick those people that are exposed nonstop to the virus that have NOTHING do with the billing department of the hospital. frick their families they have to go home to and likely expose to the virus."

That's basically what the OP is saying

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Things aren't that bad yet, how they hell are we running out of medical supplies? Are these hospitals really broke and unable to maintain a stockpile? Have they wasted money on foolishness and haven't properly prepared? Is it not their fault at all and there simply aren't any masks to purchase?

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One major issue with medical supplies is they all have shelf lives.

For example, the manufacturers of the N95 mask recommend storage for no longer than 5 years post-manufacture.

That would mean that hospital would have to throw out and restock any stockpiles of masks/supplies every 5 years, which is extremely expensive.

If they didn’t, the hospital faces liability issues.

The big question Scruffy has is whether the masks actually degrade during that time or whether the manufacturer just puts an arbitrary number on the package to keep them buying supplies.

I'm sure they ride the line so tight on the N95 certification to keep the cost down, that they probably are no good after 5 years. The elastic probably loses tightness in a incremental % that would make it fail the testing.


Is it still better than nothing? Probably.

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It's not a matter of afford at this point

They can't order them. No stock.

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Do they need to be made in America? I got an email from a vendor in China asking if any of my clients need them. Gave me pricing up to 100,000 of the N95 masks. I have no idea how that would go over. 8 days for production, but that might be for large quantities.

I concur... frick em