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06/19/2020 / By Franz Walker

Chinese company charged with sending defective face masks to the US

A Chinese manufacturing company has been charged with shipping more than 140,000 defective face masks, marketed as “KN95,” to the U.S. in the middle of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. According to federal prosecutors, the Hong Kong-based Crawford Technology Group sold masks to a U.S. distributor claiming that they met the KN95 standard — China’s equivalent […]

06/13/2020 / By Franz Walker

New York’s response to the coronavirus made the pandemic worse

Shortly after the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) hit the U.S., New York City soon became the epicenter of the outbreak in the country. Now, a new report by the Wall Street Journal says that city and state leaders’ response to the pandemic put residents at greater risk, leading to many unnecessary deaths. During the first few days of March, leaders […]

06/10/2020 / By Franz Walker

Coronavirus masks and gloves polluting oceans and beaches

Facemasks, gloves and other personal protective equipment (PPE) used to fight the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) are adding to the garbage in the world’s oceans. Operation Mer Propre (Operation Clean Sea), a French nonprofit group that regularly picks up litter along the Cote d’Azur, sounded the alarm late last month after their divers found discarded gloves, […]

04/29/2020 / By Franz Walker

Wearing masks to block the coronavirus is going to become the new normal

As countries around the world look to let people go back to work and restart their economies, it seems that wearing masks will become part of daily life. During an interview last week, Dr. David Nabarro, special envoy for COVID-19 at the World Health Organization (WHO), suggested that “some form of facial protection is going to become the norm.” Wearing a […]

04/28/2020 / By Franz Walker

Factories in China have poor sanitation and quality standards … will you trust them to make your masks?

Factories in China that manufacture masks do not meet the basic sanitation and quality standards. According to a broker with knowledge of the situation, 60 percent of factories don’t have sterile work environments, raising more questions about the quality of medical supplies that Beijing has been using to curry favor with other countries. The broker, going under the […]

04/08/2020 / By Franz Walker

Face masks are effective at STOPPING the spread of the coronavirus through speaking, NIH study finds

A new study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has confirmed that masks are effective at stopping the spread of the coronavirus. According to researchers, masks are effective at stopping tiny virus filled droplets, invisible to the naked eye, that are released while speaking. The new study mainly focused on whether or not the coronavirus behind the […]

04/05/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Cuomo drops coronavirus bombshell on New York: The state is running out of ventilators

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dropped a bombshell on New Yorkers: the entire state could run out of ventilators within the next six days. Cuomo made the announcement Thursday after dispatching 400 of the life-saving machines to New York City hospitals, as well as 200 more to hospitals and facilities in suburban counties. “Right now, we […]

03/23/2020 / By Ralph Flores

Doctors, nurses report dire shortage of protective gear — it’s like going to war with no weapons

As America continues to wage war against the coronavirus pandemic, which has since infected over 26,000 people and caused around 340 deaths as of this writing, healthcare workers are saying they’re running low on protective gear — putting themselves (and the people they treat) in peril. Reports by ProPublica and the New York Times provide a harrowing glimpse […]

03/21/2020 / By JD Heyes

Taiwan steps up to help fill protective mask void with offer to DONATE 100,000 per week to U.S. amid coronavirus outbreak

The Taiwanese government has announced it will begin manufacturing and shipping up to 100,000 hospital protective face masks to the United States beginning immediately. The news is going to be welcomed especially by American medical personnel who are struggling to find enough of them just to be able to function and do their jobs safely, […]

03/20/2020 / By JD Heyes

Trump invokes Korean War-era legislation to instruct US industries to ramp up production of healthcare equipment as coronavirus outbreak deepens

Responding without hesitation and using the full authority he has under law and the Constitution, President Donald Trump on Wednesday invoked legislation passed during the Korean War to commandeer a portion of U.S. industry responsible for producing increasingly scarce healthcare items. The president invoked the Defense Production Act in response to the widening Wuhan coronavirus […]

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