A Dallas-based company is being sued for allegedly selling tens of thousands of counterfeit N95 masks to hospitals across Washington state.
The association and University of Washington, which operates a medical school, learned in fall 2020 that CJFS could sell 3M brand N95 masks, according to the complaint filed in King County Superior Court. That November, the university purchased nearly 5,000 cases of 3M brand N95 masks for $2.6 million, according to the complaint. The hospital association purchased 634 cases of the masks for $1.4 million.
Nurse Jason Doff, carefully removes his N95 mask after emerging from a room in the acute care COVID-19 unit at the Harborview Medical Center on January 21, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. The highly transmissible omicron variant is putting a significant strain on health systems nationally resulting in staffing shortages and changes in capacity strategies. On Thursday, the Washington State Hospital Association and the University of Washington sued a Texas company for allegedly providing fake N95s.
Really? Which hospital in Texas was that? How can they tell that the masks are not the ordered masks?