The main benefit of face masks has been to protect others should you be infected and not know it, but new research points to the benefits being two-fold.

The federal government has ordered more than 150 million N95 masks, 34.8 million face shields, 118.4 million gowns and 32,070 ventilators from international and domestic suppliers.

There has been a growing outcry from hospital workers across the country that there isn't enough personal protective equipment to go around as hospitalizations for COVID-19 rise.