In Georgia, Obtaining Protective Equipment ‘Continues To Be A Struggle’

A Central Reserve Police Force soldier stitches a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suit for health workers combating the spread of the new coronavirus in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 10, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Despite communities donating it, state efforts to procure it, corporations scrambling to produce it, and new ways to disinfect it, personal protective equipment remains in short supply.

“PPE continues to be a struggle for us,’’ Homer Bryson, director of the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency, told reporters Monday.

Take the case of a medical practice in Cairo, a small town in southwest Georgia.