Biden Admin Will Build U.S. Factories Under DPA To Make Surgical Gloves

The federal government will use the Defense Production Act to build U.S.-based factories that will produce more than a billion surgical gloves every month, the White House COVID-19 Response Team told reporters Friday (Feb. 5). The plants will make the raw materials for the gloves, namely nitrile butyle rubber, in addition to the gloves themselves. Increasing domestic production of surgical gloves and the raw materials for the gloves will help keep up with increased demand from health care workers by...