EditorialHealth care workers wear elastomeric respirators as they visit patients at Yale New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Conn., April 30, 2020. (Kirsten Luce/The New York Times)
EditorialN95 masks and other protective equipment are decontaminated inside the critical care decontamination system designed by Battelle in Columbus, Ohio on April 7, 2020. (Brian Kaiser/The New York Times)
EditorialJared Kushner leaves the Rose Garden following President Donald Trump’s remarks on coronavirus testing, Monday, May 11, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialDoctors confer in a COVID ward that had fit 50 patients into a space meant for 12, at a hospital in Tefé, a remote city of 60,000 in Brazill's Amazonas state, June 16, 2020. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Donald Trump is trailed by Vice President Mike Pence as he arrives to speak to reporters at the White House about the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, March 16, 2020. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialFrank Donchez, the police chief in Overland Park, Kan., inside an unused jail cell that is being used to store respirators, surgical masks and protective suits, on March 12, 2020. (Barrett Emke/The New York Times)
EditorialA Home Depot store lets customers know that respirators are in short supply, in New York, Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times