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Relief package billions can't buy hospitals out of shortages

by Associated Press
| March 30, 2020 12:03 AM

The billions of tax dollars headed for hospitals and states as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus response bill won't fix the problem facing doctors and nurses: a critical shortage of protective gowns, gloves and masks.

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