Domestic Manufacturing Is Critical to Maintaining Emergency Supplies
Acute shortages of respirators and face masks reveal that our far-flung sourcing of goods is unfit to deal with a prolonged pandemic or other widespread, long-lasting crisis.
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Museums take this educational role seriously, and many institutions understand the need to sustain and broaden their appeal. “They used to be these big ivory towers of knowledge and history and thought and art,” said Hilary Knight, director of Change& in London and former director of digital at Tate. “Museums themselves are changing their role to be centers for discussion and encounter and to be much more participatory.”
'Ghost ships' are vessels that disappear from public tracking systems, their location manipulated or their digital record misleading. An estimated 65% of outbound tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz operate in dark mode, reducing visibility and increasing supply chain uncertainty. Misinformation in vessel tracking can cause manufacturing delays, compliance risks and financial losses. Layered verification processes, combining AIS data with other sources and escalation triggers for handling uncertain shipments, can help mitigate risk.
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Acute shortages of respirators and face masks reveal that our far-flung sourcing of goods is unfit to deal with a prolonged pandemic or other widespread, long-lasting crisis.
Tempers are getting short. Supplies of ground beef even shorter. People are looking into each other’s shopping carts. Is that guy really going to use all four cans of chickpeas? That’s a lot of emergency hummus.
A professor with the Stewart school of engineering at Georgia tech, she's with this from Atlanta. Thank you for being with us. We heard the U.S. President on Monday, he's adamant to force the country to reopen. Listen to part of what he said during a regular U.S. Briefing.
OAKLAND, Calif. - America is throwing away massive amounts of perfectly good food, especially meats and produce. It's a problem being highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic: we can't always get food to where it's needed due to logistical problems
Food banks are struggling to meet record demands, but with millions of Americans out of work, record amounts of perfectly good food are being thrown away. KTVU's Tom Vacar looks at the food supply chain and some of its logistical problems.

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