A rare look inside the Strategic National Stockpile — and how it went wrong at the start of the pandemic

A rare look inside the Strategic National Stockpile — and how it went wrong at the start of the pandemic As the first wave of the Covid pandemic devastated the U.S., hospitals looked to the nation's stockpile for desperately needed supplies. They weren't there. NBC News

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The early missteps can be attributed, in part, to a series of choices made by an obscure governing body about how to stock the stockpile — decisions made without input from health care workers or domestic manufacturers, experts said...