Before COVID-19 made its devastating appearance, personal protective equipment probably wasn't high on everyone's radar. Now, PPE -- items that protect wearers from injury or the spread of illness -- ...

Covid-19 is not a gender- or sex-neutral killer. Men are more likely than women to need intensive care for the disease or die of it. Among health care workers, however, the tables are turned: Women ...

When personal protective equipment shortages dominated headlines at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several Duluth businesses stepped up to help. Two of those businesses, Frost River Trading Co.

Gov. Ned Lamont addresses the media at a press conference in front part of a large shipment of personal protective equipment, or PPEs, that arrived over the weekend from China for health care workers ...

"I just cannot believe that we're in this situation again," doctor says. Dr. Sandra Fryhofer had so much trouble finding surgical gowns and masks for her Atlanta office several weeks ago that she said ...

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As the U.S. health care system struggles with a dearth of beds and hospital space for the rising number of coronavirus-infected people, another type of shortage looms – basic protective equipment for ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- As novel coronavirus testing expands and more positive cases are being identified every day, doctors, nurses and other health care workers are scrambling to find enough personal ...

The cost of personal protective equipment is skyrocketing – more than 1,000% in some cases – as the coronavirus pandemic continues. The federal government’s Strategic National Stockpile has nearly ...

Five months into the pandemic, the U.S. still hasn’t solved the problem. The dearth of supplies is affecting a broad array of health facilities, renewing pleas for White House intervention. By Andrew ...

Four shipments of equipment have arrived in Ukraine The first shipment of US protective equipment arrived in a Kyiv warehouse on March 23, according to Safron of UACC. It included thousands of hard ...