Coronavirus Outbreak Strains Global Medical-Mask Market

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The coronavirus is straining the global market for N95 medical masks, as Chinese officials funnel supplies to the outbreak’s front lines and companies ramp up production elsewhere

Chinese officials are buying up medical masks in the virus-wracked country from factories that typically supply hospitals around the world, forcing manufacturers to boost output globally and hospitals to ration supplies.

Masks are essential protective gear for medical workers treating patients potentially infected with the newly identified coronavirus, which has spread across China and beyond. China is one of the world’s top producers of medical masks and other gear. Now officials there are directing much of that supply to...

 

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I sit here smugly in my underground bunker eating an MRE and looking at a box of mask.

2014 Bill Gates said 当我还是小孩时, 我们最担心的灾害是核战争。 所以我们在地下室有个这样的筒子, 装满了罐头食物和水。 当核战争爆发时, 我们就要躲到地下室去, 蹲低身子并靠那个筒子维生。

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