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* WGN…

[White House officials] said the state has received 367,700 N-95 masks, 875,000 surgical masks and 300 ventilators, with an additional 172,200 N-95 masks and 150 ventilators given separately to Chicago. […]

While acknowledging the work of the Army Corps of Engineers to build additional hospital capacity in the state, Pritzker said Monday that supplies provided by the federal government will only last a handful of days because it’s going fast.

Pritzker said health care workers are expected to need up 1.5 million N-95 masks and 25 million gloves every 10 days to care for infected patients.

* Fox 32…

The federal government has sent the state 367,000 N95 masks, whereas Pritzker and his team have secured more than 9 million.

* From the governor’s briefing yesterday…

And that’s just across our hospitals and long term care facilities, with small set-asides for our law enforcement to make sure that they are fully covered, and our essential state workers. That’s also before you count the McCormick Place alternate facility, which we project could bring our surgical mask burn rate to over 2 million across that 10 day period, to just offer one more example.

…Adding… The comptroller is keeping track of federal supplies received by Illinois. These numbers are current as of yesterday…

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Apr 7, 20 @ 9:58 am

Comments

The burn rate is very helpful and has been lacking thus far. The next step to give people a meaningful understanding of what’s going on should be something like:

“We currently have X amount of PPE. Without additional aid, that will be gone in Y days.”

Comment by Tawk Tuesday, Apr 7, 20 @ 10:10 am
==We currently have X amount of PPE. Without additional aid, that will be gone in Y days.==

They said that.

“Pritzker said health care workers are expected to need up 1.5 million N-95 masks and 25 million gloves every 10 days to care for infected patients”

Comment by Demoralized Tuesday, Apr 7, 20 @ 10:15 am
==They said that.==

So we have 10 days until our PPE runs out?

Comment by Tawk Tuesday, Apr 7, 20 @ 10:20 am
Don’t worry guys, it’s only 5 days till Easter. Then this all magically goes away, ‘member?

Comment by Commisar Gritty Tuesday, Apr 7, 20 @ 10:39 am
How much of the PPE that the state has secured will be eventually be paid for by the federal government?

Comment by Phenomynous Tuesday, Apr 7, 20 @ 10:40 am
Everyone needs to understand that this is a disaster. Supplies are coming slow. You make do with what you have now. Gloves can be disinfected, so can masks (Medline is sterilizing used N95 masks in Illinois). There’s not enough for everyone. I’d like an N95 too; I have health issues making me susceptible. Can’t get one. Made an emergency mask and limited public contact. It’s not perfect. We need to do better. But right now it’s reuse and make do. One doc wanted CPAP machines to use as ventilators for less seriously ill patients in NYC. The PPE and other equipment must be conserved and reused until supplies increase. It’s not SOP or best practices right now, it’s do what must be done.

Comment by revvedup Tuesday, Apr 7, 20 @ 11:45 am