FEMA Shows It's Worthlessness Again

[fmdog44]

Expired surgical masks. Isolation gowns that resemble oversize trash bags. Extra-small gloves that are all but useless for the typical health worker’s hands.
Nursing home employees across the country have been dismayed by what they’ve found when they’ve opened boxes of protective medical gear sent by the federal government, part of a $134 million effort to provide facilities a 14-day supply of equipment considered critical for shielding their vulnerable residents from the coronavirus.
The shipments have included loose gloves of unknown provenance stuffed into unmarked Ziploc bags, surgical masks crafted from underwear fabric and plastic isolation gowns without openings for hands that require users to punch their fists through the closed sleeves. Adhesive tape must be used to secure them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fema-sends-faulty-protective-gear-to-nursing-homes-battling-virus

 

[Don M.]

This may become more common if this virus doesn't slow down. Nursing homes may find themselves getting the "factory rejects". "Priorities" may increasingly come into play if more hospitals begin to run out of space and the ability to serve the increasing numbers of patients. Just this evening, on the news, there was a doctor from a hospital in either Texas, or Florida....I didn't catch which....who said they are sending patients with little hope of survival back home to die...so as to make room for people who they might be able to treat and cure.

 

[StarSong]

Since gloves have become hard to find, hubby and I are rinsing them off, letting them sit for a week or two, then reusing them.