Visualization on Availability of Health Supplies

Maine is the top state where eye protection equipment is scarce. Maine invested millions of federal dollars in protective medical equipment and emergency ventilators to prepare its hospitals for infectious disease, bioterrorism and mass casualty events. Yet, years of spending cuts left Maine’s three regional resource centers strapped for cash to replace aging and expiring medical supplies.

Alaska tops the charts for shortage of gloves. Nationwide preparations for the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine have caused a national shortage of surgical gloves, which has been felt in the last few weeks by health care and nursing home facilities across Alaska. “Gloves have really been tighter than the rest of the supplies,” Dr. Anne Zink, the state’s chief medical officer, said last week.

Wyoming recorded the worst shortage of hand sanitizers. Health Department shifts testing procedure due to supply shortage of hand sanitizers. Due to the nationwide shortage of COVID testing supplies during the recent omicron surge, the Casper-Natrona County Health Department (CNCHD) is shifting its test strategies, including rationing rapid tests, eliminating travel testing and offering PCR tests exclusively on a drive-up, no-appointment basis.

All most all the states faced a shortage of N-95 Masks .Front-line health workers were advised to use surgical masks to protect against the coronavirus that causes covid-19, CDC now advises, and reserve N95 masks for the riskiest situations.