I may have read about this on other sources but it didn't hit home until I read it on the World Socialist Website (which should be in your spectrum of sources) (capitalist trigger warning)

"After nearly 150,000 health care workers have contracted the virus and almost 2,000 have died, they still lack the necessary protective equipment."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/05/mexi-d05.html