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COVID-19 & the Medical Supply Crisis

COVID-19 & the Medical Supply Crisis

As COVID swept the U.S., why did hospitals face deadly shortages of PPE and other medical supplies?

The FRONTLINE Dispatch

October 8, 202025m 57s

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As COVID swept the U.S., why did hospitals face deadly shortages of PPE and other medical supplies? How did America’s medical supply chain fail so catastrophically? FRONTLINE, in collaboration with the Associated Press and the Global Reporting Centre, investigates what went wrong in the new documentary America's Medical Supply Crisis. AP reporters Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman join The FRONTLINE Dispatch to discuss their findings.