US hospitals don’t have what they need to fight off COVID-19

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Hospitals in Cincinnati are furloughing and cutting hours for nurses and other health care workers. Nurses at a New York City hospital struggled to get tested for COVID-19. A Minnesota health center considered closing because it didn’t have enough face masks.

A new report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services, which is tasked with overseeing the agency, makes it clear that those reports aren’t just anecdotes, but consistent problems faced by hospitals all over the country as they struggle to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I am chilled to the bone reading the @OIGatHHS report on how hospitals are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

PDF: https://t.co/sKzU1kCHXn

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