COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world have been scrambling to obtain enough personal protective equipment for front-line health-care workers.America’s Medical Supply Crisis, a new documentary produced in part by the University of British Columbia’s Global Reporting Centre, looks at the critical shortage of PPE in the U.S.“Doctors and nurses were saying they didn’t have gowns, they didn’t have masks, they didn’t have face shields, all of these things,” director Peter Klein said. “So the question was, why?”Much of the problem stemmed from how the pandemic disrupted global supply chains, according to Klein.[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“We started looking around the world, looking at how.