Federal officials distribute half-a-million medical supplies including 200,000 N95 masks to health workers in New York and New Jersey after seizing them from HOARDERS
FBI agents confiscated 500,000 pieces of medical equipment from hoarder, including N95 and surgical masks, gowns, hand sanitizer and disinfectants
Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services have arranged for seized supplies to be distributed to health officials in New York and New Jersey
Hoarder will be paid market value for the seized supplies, according to HHS
Attorney General William Barr warned that people who are hoarding medical supplies ‘can expected a knock on the door’
MedCram Lecture
Dr. Roger Seheult
April 2
Coronavirus Pandemic Update 48: Curve Flattening in California, PPE in the ICU, Medication Trials
As global COVID-19 infections and deaths continue to rise, Dr. Seheult discusses an encouraging curve flattening trend from preliminary data in California and Washington States. Personal protective equipment in the ICU setting and hydroxychloroquine clinical trials seeking enrollees from the United States and Canada are also discussed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN-8bGB1cLM
Hydroxychloroquine Treatment Trial conducted by the University of Minnesota Information https://covidpep.umn.edu/ (seeking participants from the United States and Canada, please consider if you qualify).