Nationwide Glove Shortfall Impacts Minnesota Health Care Providers

CBS Minnesota

January 25, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Fighting a pandemic is hard enough. But a year into the COVID crisis, Minnesota health care providers still face PPE shortages. Manufacturers couldn’t meet nearly 40% of the demand for gloves last year. That’s a shortfall of more than 215 billion gloves.

Pine River Group Home serves people with development disabilities in north central Minnesota. Carrie Guida is its executive director.

“We’re doing a lot of personal care for our folks, so it may be helping them with bathing or brushing your teeth,” Guida said.

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