According to the New York Times , “Nursing home employees across the country have been dismayed by what they’ve found when they’ve opened boxes of protective medical gear sent by the federal government, part of a $134 million effort to provide facilities a 14-day supply of equipment considered critical for shielding their vulnerable residents from the coronavirus.” The Times says “the shipments have included loose gloves of unknown provenance stuffed into unmarked Ziploc bags, surgical masks crafted from underwear fabric and plastic isolation gowns without openings for hands that require users to punch their fists through the closed sleeves. Adhesive tape must be used to secure them.” The Times adds that “none of the shipments have included functional N95 respirators, the virus-filtering face masks that are the single most important bulwark against infection.” The Times reports that FEMA “said it had addressed the complaints.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.