{"id":41503,"date":"2023-01-27T10:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=41503"},"modified":"2023-01-27T10:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T10:01:34","slug":"another-6billion-of-ppe-and-covid-tests-down-the-drain-critics-slam-14-9bn-of-extraordinary-waste-on-overpriced-faulty-or-unused-pandemic-era-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/27\/another-6billion-of-ppe-and-covid-tests-down-the-drain-critics-slam-14-9bn-of-extraordinary-waste-on-overpriced-faulty-or-unused-pandemic-era-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Another \u00a36BILLION of PPE and Covid tests down the drain: Critics slam \u00a314.9bn of &#8216;extraordinary waste&#8217; on overpriced, faulty or unused pandemic-era equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23295\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-770x403.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks-500x261.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/masks.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another \u00a36billion of taxpayer cash was &#8216;wasted&#8217; on Covid-era equipment last year, it was revealed today.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11680521\/Another-6BILLION-PPE-Covid-tests-drain-Critics-slam-14-9bn-waste.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Another \u00a36billion of taxpayer cash was &#8216;wasted&#8217; on Covid-era equipment last year, it was revealed today.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-covid-19"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/PPE.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41504,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41503\/revisions\/41504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}