Dr. Gupta: We Still Don’t Have Enough Testing

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GUPTA: "You know, if I can paint you a picture for a second, we still don’t have enough testing. People fundamentally get that, I think, by this point. But the trickle effect is quite extraordinary. If you don’t have enough testing, even within hospitals, that means that you may have to, as I did this week, may have to operate on patients who have not been tested. You haven’t been able to get a test result back on them. You have to take them to the operating room. So that means everybody. We always wear masks and gowns in the operating room, but now we also have to wear N95 masks on top of that, which are hard to get. I mean, people say in places around the country we have plenty of PPE. I don’t know if that’s the case or if we have just moved the goalpost. What we’re told in our hospital is that you can only have one N95 mask, you have to use it until it’s essentially ruined.”