Please act to stop shortage of masks

Regarding the shortage of protective medical gear like masks and gowns: I listened as you touted the large number of orders for protective medical gear as if that number would automatically be delivered. In a crisis like this, however, it is up to you as President to make sure those essential orders can and will be filled. Please do it. It is disappointing that in America I cannot wear a mask to the grocery store because I am concerned that medical professionals — true heroes, walking into harm’s way every time they walk through a patient’s door — will not have enough masks to keep them safe. And it’s happening. Doctors in New York are reusing masks when they should be changing them, endangering themselves and their patients. The shortfall is real. Compel companies to make masks. Buy them at a fair price, not at a possibly price-gouging market price. Coordinate distribution to the medical front lines. And then keep going until every food worker, postal worker, and average citizen like me can also wear a mask knowing that our medical heroes are already as protected as possible in their dangerous mission. Thank you for listening.