In the absence of a nationwide distribution plan, many smaller hospitals, nursing homes and physicians who need medical equipment are being left behind.
As hospitals, doctors and state and local governments race for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies with little coordination by the Trump administration, the well-connected are often getting to the front of the line.
The competition for scarce supplies threatens to deepen inequalities in the nation’s healthcare system, putting Americans who live in more isolated regions of the country at highest risk. The head of one major West Coast medical system which has labored to secure its own supplies lambasted the Trump administration’s lack of leadership.
In the Bay Area, the UC San Francisco Medical Center, another one of the country’s leading hospitals, received a donation of masks from software giant Salesforce, which is also based in the city.Thomas Tighe, chief executive of Santa Barbara-based nonprofit Direct Relief, said he recently drove a shipment of masks to Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica after hearing from an emergency room physician he knew that medical staff there were reusing masks for up to a week.
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