Target is buying masks for resale.
The US government, given any sense, should be forbidding private sale of these masks until there's enough supply in hospitals and other critical spots. It shouldn't be hard for a mask distributor to find a hospital willing to buy right now.
They could, in fact, order that production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950
Trump's been hemming and hawing on invoking it for several days now.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/medical-orgs-urge-trump-t...
> Health care professionals from the American Hospital Association (AHA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Nurses Association (ANA) sent a joint letter to President Donald Trump on Saturday pleading for more medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
> In the letter, the three organizations implored Trump to utilize the Defense Production Act (DPA) to help with the “dwindling supplies” of respirators, surgical masks, and other necessary tools.
