COVID-19 Response
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe in March of 2020, hospitals worldwide faced a crisis. Braced for an onslaught of COVID patients, the medical community was uncertain about the severity of the disease or how best to treat it. Front line workers watched as stores of critical personal protective equipment (PPE), like masks and gloves, dwindled ever smaller – with no new shipments arriving to resupply.
Globally, demand for masks, gowns, disinfectant wipes, and other critical medical supplies had exploded overnight. Manufacturers were overwhelmed. And, since selling into the new black market had become wildly more profitable than shipping products through traditional channels, big distributors were unable to find products.
The hospitals at the end of the supply chain – used to calling their distributors and being able to buy as much as they wanted on favorable payment terms from trusted counterparties – were suddenly left in the dark. The combination of demand and supply shocks upended the markets virtually overnight, and left frontline medical workers vulnerable in their time of greatest need.
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