News / Governments must intervene in the PPE industry to ensure future supply

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Public health procurement officials around the world need to radically rethink their supply chain strategies to avoid a repeat of the chaos that engulfed PPE logistics in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.

As the pandemic spread from China across the world in March and April, the provision of personal protective equipment (PPE) to health professionals fell woefully short of what was required in almost every country, due to a fatal combination of wildly fluctuating demand and bottlenecks in supply, ...