After California ordered 200 million masks a month to protect essential workers from coronavirus, will states and nations elsewhere lose out? Gov. Gavin Newsom says no.
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But Newsom said California was looking to collaborate with other states, citing incipient efforts to coordinate with procurement counterparts and saying other governors have had a “favorable” response. “If the dynamics are, this is only for the state of California or primarily for California — and others are second at best — then I think it risks fragmenting the market state by state, which is not what we want,” he said.
Newsom spoke to his "deep respect and gratitude" to legislators who could help "leverage our investment” in a manner that “protects the taxpayers, as well.” “We've leveraged all of those partnerships and relationships to build in to using their pipelines to leverage those to help,” Newsom said. “So, that has been a source of ongoing PPE, particularly masks, but it's also shields and gowns and other kinds of commodities, both in real time and in our effort to build in the out weeks and the out months additional PPE.”
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