Frontline workers are continuing to have problems getting personal protective equipment. To find out where and why that’s still the case, Arun Rath speaks with Dr. Shikha Gupta from Get Us PPE. The organization started taking PPE donations last March and distributing the equipment to groups in need. Its efforts have only grown since.

And Arun gets a different angle on problems with supply lines for essentials from Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih, who offers a primer on the Defense Production Act and what effect it might have if President Biden invokes it.