Desperate for medical equipment, states find a beleaguered national stockpile
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.
Inside Trump’s risky push to reopen the country amid the crisis
The president’s desire pits him against multiple governors, Democratic and Republican, who are striving to mitigate the coronavirus’s impact in their communities and marshal medical supplies for their hospitals.
Urban centers gird for catastrophic outbreak
Still unable to do widespread testing, and fearful as the federal government fails to marshal critical supplies, officials in Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles are watching caseloads climb and trying to prepare.
(Chris Bergin for The Post)
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Demand for some kinds of freight has surged, but finding places to get clean and rest has become harder for drivers.
Construction projects are deemed “essential” under public health orders in some areas.
Retired Justice David H. Souter has already weighed in, ruling against the Trump administration’s attempt to punish uncooperative localities.
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“People in bars and in restaurants and on the streets hugging each other, in crowds, it just completely frustrates me to see that.”
