What could we have done differently? PPE supply chain lessons from COVID-19

DOTmed June 1, 2020
Valerie Dimond

As COVID-19 deaths accumulate across the country, countless healthcare organizations remain hard at work trying to secure the critical equipment and supplies required to treat the heavy stream of patients they encounter every day. This isn’t the first time — and it won’t be the last — that hospitals are faced with a healthcare crisis. But can lessons from the past be applied now? And what can we learn presently, and never forget, going forward?

“We often talk about a panic/neglect cycle,” stated Dr. Eric Toner, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in a February 14 article published by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP). “Every time there’s a crisis, people get...

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