Provincial governments and health-care workers are facing a severe shortage of N95 masks. For hospital workers in the COVID-19 pandemic, the N95 masks have become the health-care standard in personal protective equipment because they are designed to filter out tiny virus particles. Joe Audette said he was shocked at how many medical gloves and N95 masks the federal government dumped in a Regina landfill last spring. Provincial governments and health-care workers are facing a severe shortage of N95 masks. Tkachuk hopes that this latest crisis might finally be the wake-up call that Canada needs to start taking emergency preparedness seriously.

Source: CBC News April 15, 2020 08:12 UTC