Meanwhile, health care workers treating coronavirus patients don’t have enough masks, and officials are turning to the black market.
President Donald Trump is rejecting calls to put a single military commander in charge of medical supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic.
He says that his administration has the supply situation under control and that appointing a new “czar” makes no sense when he’s already got several military commanders working on the federal response.
But the calls for a czar, a single authority, are coming from a lot of people, including Democratic elected officials and advocates for frontline medical workers. They say the supply situation remains a crisis, especially when it comes to the widespread shortages of protective gear. Continue reading.