Auditor finds national PPE stockpile unprepared for pandemic, despite warnings

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Canada’s National Emergency Strategic Stockpile was unprepared to deal with the pandemic due to “long-standing unaddressed problems” that had been known for more than a decade when COVID-19 hit, according to the auditor general.
In a report released Wednesday, Auditor General Karen Hogan reviewed the national stockpile and efforts to purchase personal protective equipment and found Canada was ill-prepared to respond to the pandemic.
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“As a result of long-standing unaddressed problems with the systems and practices in place to manage the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile, the Public Health Agency of Canada was not as prepared as it could have been,” she wrote.

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