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It's all over the news that there's a big shortage of medical oxygen in India, the lack of which is interfering with covid treatment. Oxygen is being driven around in armed transports and that sort of thing. Does anyone know quite what the bottleneck is? Oxygen itself is plentiful in the atmosphere, purifying and liquifying it in industrial quantities is done all the time, you can get it at welding and scuba shops etc. The shortage has been going on long enough to have spun up manufacturing lines in India and China for whatever is needed, I would have thought, though I thought the same thing of N95 masks. Either way it's not like a shortage of an exotic drug or rare metal. Any idea what's going on? Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 21:01, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
I didn't mean to dismiss the N95 shortage, but rather the opposite: I understood how there could be an N95 shortage at the start of the pandemic when demand suddenly shot up and (among other things) the supposed US national stockpile turned out to be empty, but I couldn't understand why the shortage was still happening a year later. Also, if anyone wants N95's, wellbefore.com and safetyemporium.com both have them. I would say shortage is not over (I'll declare the shortage over when the price per mask is comparable to before the pandemic), but you can get them for a few dollars per mask. I have some and am continuing to re-use them, although HCW are now supposed to stop doing that. [2]
Guy Macon: many of your links are quite out of date. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 22:11, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
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It's all over the news that there's a big shortage of medical oxygen in India, the lack of which is interfering with covid treatment. Oxygen is being driven around in armed transports and that sort of thing. Does anyone know quite what the bottleneck is? Oxygen itself is plentiful in the atmosphere, purifying and liquifying it in industrial quantities is done all the time, you can get it at welding and scuba shops etc. The shortage has been going on long enough to have spun up manufacturing lines in India and China for whatever is needed, I would have thought, though I thought the same thing of N95 masks. Either way it's not like a shortage of an exotic drug or rare metal. Any idea what's going on? Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 21:01, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
I didn't mean to dismiss the N95 shortage, but rather the opposite: I understood how there could be an N95 shortage at the start of the pandemic when demand suddenly shot up and (among other things) the supposed US national stockpile turned out to be empty, but I couldn't understand why the shortage was still happening a year later. Also, if anyone wants N95's, wellbefore.com and safetyemporium.com both have them. I would say shortage is not over (I'll declare the shortage over when the price per mask is comparable to before the pandemic), but you can get them for a few dollars per mask. I have some and am continuing to re-use them, although HCW are now supposed to stop doing that. [2]
Guy Macon: many of your links are quite out of date. 2602:24A:DE47:BB20:50DE:F402:42A6:A17D ( talk) 22:11, 26 April 2021 (UTC)