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SC Dept of Ed provides $33 million worth of PPE for schools

October 14, 2020

The money has been used to purchase hand sanitizer, gloves, masks, plexiglas and other items to make schools safe.

IRMO, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) is providing more than $33 million in funding for personal protective equipment (PPE) for schools in the Palmetto State.

Education officials announced on Tuesday they would be providing more than $33 million of the protective equipment to all 81 public school districts across the state.

Officials say they were able to make the purchases after the South Carolina General Assembly allowed them to use previously allocated Ccronavirus relief funds.

The protective equipment includes disinfecting wipes, masks, hand sanitizer, plexiglass and many other items. Some of the equipment arrived last week.

Here’s a breakdown of all the equipment the department purchased:

597,585 Adult and student reusable cloth face masks
2,681,950 Adult and student disposable face masks
189,966 KN95 masks
87,010 Adult and

PPE Problems, Shortages Persist As Health Care Workers Struggle

October 8, 2020

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The FDA rebuked an Ohio company that makes mask decontamination devices, saying it skirted safety rules. In California, more than 3,000 nurses and health care workers in the Bay Area are on strike to protest unsafe working conditions. And a 28-year-old physician in Texas dies of COVID; her family says she had to wear the same N95 mask “for weeks and weeks, if not months and months.”

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FDA Formally Warns Mask Decontamination Device Maker Touted By Trump

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday formally chastised a mask decontamination device company once touted by President Trump for skirting rules about safety monitoring. It said the Ohio-based Battelle Memorial Institute, which makes a system to decontaminate the protective masks worn by health care workers, did not have adequate procedures in place for identifying adverse events, like allergic reactions. (Florko, 10/7)

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Months Into Pandemic, PPE Shortage Persists

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Depleted National Stockpile Contributed to COVID PPE Shortage

October 6, 2020

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When President Donald Trump was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, he became one of 7.4 million people in America infected by the coronavirus. That number includes around 1,000 health care workers who have died from the virus — some of whom were left without essential personal protective equipment, or PPE.

Why was the U.S. left scrambling for such critical supplies — and why do problems persist now, months into the pandemic?

A new investigative documentary from FRONTLINE, The Associated Press and the Global Reporting Centre offers some answers. Premiering Tuesday, Oct. 6 on PBS and online, America’s Medical Supply Crisis traces unheeded warnings and their deadly consequences.

“This is deplorable,” Ernest Grant, president of the American Nurses Association, says in the film. “When you stop and think that we send soldiers into battle with the equipment that they need. Yet we were asking nurses to do the

DONY supply COVID face mask, PPE medical coverall to Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao, Malaysia

September 29, 2020

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DONY Launches Full Line of Personal Protective Equipment: The DONY Mask, The DONY Disposable Surgical Protective Coverall, and The DONY Medical Isolation Gown Suit – Full Protection From Head to Toe.

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The company is supplying globally, the majority of Dony’s customers are in the following 15 countries: Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Macao, France, Germany, United Kingdom, USA, Canada, Singapore, UK, UAE and Australia.

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DONY Launches Full Line of Personal Protective Equipment: The DONY Mask, The DONY Disposable Surgical

Relevium’s BGX E-Health Secures US$20M Contract for Supplying PPE to the Canadian Market for Q1 of the Current Fiscal Year

September 27, 2020

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MONTREAL, Sep 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) —
Relevium Technologies Inc. (TSX.V: “RLV”, OTC: “RLLVF” and Frankfurt: “6BX”) (the “Company” or “Relevium”) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary in the US, BGX E-Health LLC ( “BGX”), has secured a USD$20 Million contract to supply critical PPE to the Canadian Health Care Market with deliveries starting the week of September 20 and ending by the first week of October 2020.

Compared to revenues recorded during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, this initial contract is expected to increase forecasted yearly revenues for the year ending June 30, 2021 by an estimated 660%, from CAD$4.05M in 2019 to a forecasted CAD$30M for 2021.

INITIAL CONTRACT TO SUPPLY PPE FOR CRITICAL NEEDS IN CANADA

The COVID-19 global pandemic has created significant gaps in the supply of