COMPANY NEWS

(GBH) – Even as vaccine distribution crawls along in Massachusetts, calls for personal protective gear like masks, gowns and gloves are still common.

(Washington Post) – We are rightly grateful to the front-line health-care workers who put their lives on the line each day. Their relative risk of death rose 20 percent in 2020 over previous years.

(CNN) – Getting Americans masked up is a top priority for the Biden administration.

Biden, who calls wearing masks “a patriotic act,” signed an executive order Wednesday — his very first as President — to ask Americans to wear masks of their choice for the first 100 days of the new administration.

(Forbes) – Help me, help you.

That’s what Tom Cruise told Renée Zellweger in the movie Jerry Maguire. That’s also apparently what some clothing and other soft goods manufacturers have been trying to ask the U.S. government during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

(Bloomberg Law) – The U.S. likely is producing enough masks, gowns, and other personal protective equipment. The supplies just aren’t getting to all the health-care workers who need them.

(NY Times) – As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.

The (Supply Chain Matters) blog highlights another example of joint business collaboration, and how a commercial real estate development firm and a legacy local manufacturer are addressing the need for domestic U.S. based production of N95 surgical respirator masks.

(PBS) – During the coronavirus pandemic, the world has become reliant on personal protective equipment, or PPE. Most of this essential gear, from masks to gowns to goggles, comes from China

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Fallon Company and Shawmut Corporation today announced the creation of a new domestic manufacturing operation to produce N95 respirators.

(CBS) – The Baker administration announced it’s investing millions in making PPE in Massachusetts. The state is handing out more than $6 million in grants. One of the biggest grants will go to a West Bridgewater company, run by the same family for more than 100 years.

BOSTON – The Baker-Polito Administration has awarded over $6.5 Million to 13
Massachusetts organizations to develop new products to assist in the response to the
COVID-19 public health emergency.