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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other Medical Equipment Shortages Will Persist.

There is not enough equipment stored and on hand to meet everyone's needs.

A favorite quote that I've shared here before and applicable to our current situation, "Logistics, if it was easy would be called taxes."

See this Washington Post article, Desperate for medical equipment, states encounter a beleaguered national stockpile.

When will there be enough equipment for everyone? I'm guessing later this summer, into next fall. Shortages will persist especially in the short term, weeks and months. The good news is supplies will be available if the virus takes a break during the summer (still not known) and comes back when colder weather returns. 

2020 is shaping up to be a very interesting year. What if the virus does fade in warmer temps, but "moves around" and then when temperatures cool, hits those areas, such as those not being impacted now, rural areas?

2020 is absolutely going to be in all the record books, in one way or another. 

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.