Desperate For Medical Equipment, States Find A Beleaguered National Stockpile

By Amy Goldstein, Lena Sun and Beth Reinhard, Washington Post
Sat, 03/28/2020 - 7:58am

States seeking masks, drugs, ventilators and other items from the stockpile are encountering a system beset by years of underfunding, changing lines of authority, confusion over the allocation of supplies and a lack of transparency from the administration, said state and federal officials and public health experts.

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