//Hospitals still ration medical N95 masks as stockpiles swell

Hospitals still ration medical N95 masks as stockpiles swell

Mike Bowen’s warehouse outside Fort Worth, Texas, was piled high with cases of medical-grade N95 face masks. His company, Prestige Ameritech, can churn out 1 million masks every four days, but he doesn’t have orders for nearly that many. So he recently got approval from the government to export them.“I’m drowning in these respirators,” Bowen said.On the same day 1,000 miles north, Mary Turner, a