In ambulance bays, physician offices, nursing homes and hospital facilities, Georgia medical professionals are struggling to maintain or devise enough equipment and supplies to treat their patients while staying protected from the coronavirus themselves.

Doctors and nurses say supplies of disposable gowns that can help protect them from infection are in short supply. Medics are being asked to re-use N-95 masks. Some clinics reportedly are running low on specialized swabs used to check for coronavirus. Hospitals say they will not have enough life-saving devices, such as ventilators, as more severely ill people with respiratory failure fill beds.