Weeks after the CDC said people should use masks to curb the coronavirus, grocery stores struggle to buy them for staff, partly due to U.S. actions.
As complaints have multiplied, FEMA officials have denied reports that the agency has seized urgently needed medical supplies or rerouted shipments already committed to other buyers. “What we have found in these kind of cases is that it is a miscommunication between the customer and distributor,” a FEMA spokesman wrote.
government officials might be more willing to share their supplies and less inclined to interfere in grocery stores’ orders. While supplies of medical and cloth masks have increased in recent weeks, Ross said, many grocery stores still don’t have enough to protect their employees. “Only now are they tapping into international and domestic sources and starting to stock up for us in order to meet demand,” he said.
The possibility that these orders could become more widespread at a time when masks remain so hard to get has some grocers nervous.
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