When state governments were told to "go find your own ventilators and personal protective equipment, we're not your purchasing agent" or words to that effect, they did that. The consequence is that those items are being bid up, and not going in the needed quantities to where the hot spots are, where they are needed or not. It's the worst of situations for the problems we are facing. I saw one doctor interviewed who said he had been wearing the same mask for nearly a week, going from patient to patient. Meanwhile, our "national CEO" says he hasn't heard of shortages of masks, etc.