Many Americans began hoarding masks due to concerns that the Corona virus and some newspaper pharmacies had sold out.

On the Amazon e-commerce site, many large suppliers say it will take several weeks for delivery. Public health experts are concerned about the risk of a shortage of masks, created by this bewilderment of psychology.

Masks are thought to help slow the spread of illnesses in emergency rooms, offices, subways and buses, curbing the liquid particles caused by coughing, sneezing into the air.

However, according to experts, the fact that people rush to buy masks also means hospitals and clinics lack masks. Doctors and nurses who treat patients with respiratory illnesses should wear masks and replace them regularly, as soon as the mask is moist, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC).

A CDC official said the agency is reaching out to manufacturers to prevent a shortage of masks. "We see that people are buying masks because of panic rather than actual needs," said Dr. Anita Patel of CDC.

Alex M. Azar II, Secretary of the US Department of Health and People, said January 28 that stockpiling masks is unnecessary for Americans because the risk is not high. "The risk of any American having a virus is very small," he said.

A mask is one of the medical devices stored in the US National Strategic Reserve, which is distributed to health facilities nationwide. However, US experts are currently not clear on the exact amount in the warehouse or the expected supply if the epidemic persists.

Pneumonia caused by a new strain of the corona family (nCoV) began in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province of China. The epidemic has now spread to Thailand, Japan, Korea, USA, Singapore, Nepal, France, Canada and Vietnam. As of January 29, Hubei Province had 37 more deaths from acute pneumonia caused by a new strain of the Corona family (nCoV). The number of cases in this province increased by 1,032, to 4,856.

Foreign governments are trying to get citizens out of the region amid soaring deaths and the World Health Organization (WHO) expresses "deep concern" about the spread of human-to-human disease. people of the disease.