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Medical sterilization plants reopen to fight COVID, but feds discussing further steps 'at highest level' to boost medical supplies

By Jonathan Bilyk | Friday, Mar 27, 2020 @ 5:21pm

Cobb County, Ga., officials posted a message, purportedly from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, blasting county's 'insufficient' decision to only allow limited reopening of embattled sterilization plant and hinting at possible further federal action to boost supplies of PPE and other medical gear needed vs COVID-19.
FDA: Sterilization plants needed to boost PPE supply vs COVID; activists question, resist call to reopen plants

By Jonathan Bilyk | Monday, Mar 23, 2020 @ 9:28pm

Anti-EtO sterilization groups in IL, GA, oppose FDA's call to reopen medical sterilization plants closed last year, which FDA says are needed to help fight COVID-19
FDA: Georgia Sterigenics plant needs to reopen to help fight COVID-19

By Jonathan Bilyk | Friday, Mar 20, 2020 @ 11:56am

Federal agency says hospitals are running short on "personal protective equipment" to safeguard doctors and nurses from infection, in part, because states shut down medical device sterilization plants over EtO emissions