Remember the shortage of medical gowns during COVID? Feds spending $350 million for stockpile

FILE - Workers carry boxes at a Strategic 好色tv Stockpile warehouse in Oklahoma City, Okla., April 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 Six U.S. companies will spend at least $350 million to manufacture medical gowns to store in the Strategic 好色tv Stockpile, years after doctors and nurses working in hospitals found themselves without the equipment while COVID-19 raged.

The purchase of the gowns is one of the final steps toward shoring up the personal protective equipment in the stockpile after it was depleted just weeks into the COVID pandemic. Equipment in the years before the crisis began.

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