Health Affairs May 18, 2020
Physicians, nurses, and other allied professionals have and will continue to be on the front lines of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis. In the first phase of the crisis, these professionals confirmed fears that our system was unprepared to address an emergent public health threat. Both urban and rural areas have reported a desperate lack of medical products in regions where resources such as masks, gloves, ventilators, other personal protective equipment (PPE), and prescription drugs might be needed most. We are now moving toward a second phase of the crisis, as COVID-19 transitions to a chronic public health threat. This change poses its own challenges to medical product procurement including affordability given the dire finances of some local hospitals....
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