FDA to allow imports of KN95 masks from China amid PPE shortage

theHill ^ | 04/02/2020 | J. Edward Moreno

[granada]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will no longer block the import of KN95 masks, due to a shortage in personal protective equipment, or PPE, in the United States, an agency official first told Buzzfeed News.

The masks have been described as the Chinese equivalent of an N95 mask which U.S. health care workers use to protect themselves from airborne bacteria and viruses. Though they are allowing imports of the KN95 mask, the product is not FDA-approved, meaning those who use it do so without legal protections.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has included the KN95 mask as an alternative to other certified masks that should be used on an emergency basis.

The FDA has not authorized models of KN95 masks made in China under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) previously due to concerns of fraudulent products.

[madison10]

Not a bright move. Europe is refusing medical imports from China for a reason.

[chris37]

What could go wrong?

[DannyTN]

Check those masks for coronavirus.

[LouAvul]

I hope ASAP we stop doing business with the chinks. They’re the enemy. Don’t we realize that?

[Drango]

Nice of our central planning masters to dispense their benevolence on the people.

[JPJones]

What a dumb idea.

Deep state is run by idiots.

[bert]

The reason is bureaucratic zeal. Better do nothing and die than risk any possibility of criticism

All imports from china can be tested to confirm quality

[null and void]

Smallpox blankets.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[PapaBear3625]

Sounds good.

Reserve the good N-95 masks for health workers.

Release the Chinese crap to retail stores for people who want a mask to go to the supermarket.

[Born to Conserve]

“If a quarantine saves just one child’s or one old fart’s life, it’s worth it.”

Unless it kills as many children as it saves.

[madison10]

True, testing should find issues.

[ptsal]

Do these masks have a 3M logo?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I would send every last one of them to that outfit in Columbus for decontamination first.

[dadfly]

hey you gods at FDA? can you at least make sure they’re labeled “Made in China” so i’ll know not to buy them?

[null and void]

What a dumb idea.

Deep state is run by idiots.

You can only think that if you assume an absence of malice.

When every single decision, and every single action, points in the direction of the destruction of life, health and the good and the glorification of death, disease and evil. Every. Single. Time. It's challenging to rule out evil.

[PGR88]

The problem is - are they the real ones? China makes some good stuff. It also makes a lot of fakes too.

[null and void]

hey you gods at FDA? can you stop 3M from shipping masks made here to anywhere but America?

[Truth29]

Do they come pre contaminated with COVID-95?

[null and void]

China makes some good stuff.

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