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What US medical supply chain can learn from the fashion industry

  • Written by Tinglong Dai, Associate Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics, Johns Hopkins University
imageMasks: Where health care and fashion collide.Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images

The shortage of crucial medical supplies, especially personal protective equipment, has crippled the United States’ ability to quell the COVID-19 pandemic.

At least 54,000 nursing home residents and workers have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. as of June 26. This...

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