In March of 2020, as frontline health care workers toiled to keep the first wave of patients infected with COVID-19 alive, sudden shortages of hand sanitizer, gloves, gowns and face masks, in particular, hampered their efforts — and placed their own health in jeopardy.

It has been one year this week since nonessential U.S. businesses ceased normal operations, pausing manufacturing, shutting down storefronts and sending employees home from offices in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.

source: cbsnews.com