Staff at VA New York Harbor Healthcare System (Image from U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
U.S. veterans hospitals have only about a 30-day supply of personal protective equipment at the ready for staff use should a second wave of COVID-19 strike the nation, a VA official told a Senate committee this week.
Dr. Richard Stone, executive in charge of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, testified that the agency operates on a just-in-time supply system for its 170 hospitals and clinics. It was working on improving its supply chain before the coronavirus struck the U.S., but virus-related delays in imports of PPE early in the pandemic disrupted the system.
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