The U.S. could begin to see food shortages if the people working on the supply chain lack personal protective equipment (PPE) -- including face masks and gloves -- the Yahoo News website reports exclusively today (April 4, 2020).
Empty supermarket shelves have become one of the most jarring images of the coronavirus pandemic, which has sickened 270,000 Americans and killed 7,000. Supermarkets would be wise to limit customers to a maximum of two items of each product in their stores, in order to prevent hoarding and unnecessary over-buying.
An internal Trump administration document, dated April 2, 2020 and obtained by Yahoo News, warns that the task force had completed an analysis and there could be "commodity impacts if current PPE inventory is exhausted."
Although there is no sign of a food shortage across the nation at this time, the coronavirus pandemic is putting a strain on every aspect of the food supply chain, from the people who raise and grow what we eat to the people who deliver it to our supermarkets.
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