But, but.....NO ONE needs to go out and buy a mask!
Per VP.
They need more masks for the front liners. After about two weeks use, they will need front liners.
Excerpt: Orders have been canceled due to CDC stockpiling
Advice can change, but as of now, there’s no guidance telling Americans to wear face masks, either the basic surgical face masks or the N95 respirators that health care workers wear to treat infectious diseases.
This hasn’t stopped Americans from stockpiling both types anyway.
David Bowman of Phoenix, Arizona, told CNN he’d ordered three respirator masks, which cost him just under $13 each, from Vitality Medical. The medical supply company guaranteed his order would arrive by March 7 at the latest.
But then it was back-ordered until May 29. The notice Vitality Medical sent him said that the CDC had “allocated with our warehouse the item [he] ordered.”