Most of the world’s supply of masks and respirators comes from China, and a supply chain gap poses a risk to everyday health care beyond the viral epidemic.
It’s been less than two weeks since the Chinese government quarantined 35 million people in the city of Wuhan and surrounding regions to control the fast-spreading coronavirus, but the images coming from there already have a grim familiarity: empty shops and streets, long queues at hospitals, and on every face, a surgical mask covering everything below the eyes.
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