The increasingly expensive supplies governors are so desperately searching for are selling out before they can get them – or are costing them exorbitant amounts when they can find them.
and other states have said they've received a fraction of the supplies they've requested from the stockpile.
Indiana Health Commissioner Kristina Box said Wednesday that Indiana recently got its second allotment of supplies from the national stockpile and planned to distribute it to hospitals with the greatest needs. FEMA’s administrator has said the federal government is prepared to “go to zero” with the stockpile to meet the demand for supplies.
So they’re requesting donations and making plans to conserve their equipment and even reuse some of it if necessary.With high demand squeezing the supply of PPE, agencies in search of this equipment may be turning to the “gray market,” said Mike Alkire, president of Premier, a group purchasing company that hospitals and medical clinics rely on for supply needs.Premier is exploring that market, too, but Alkire said it's made up of unauthorized or unofficial sellers and fraught with fraud.
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