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  • is Eyewitness News on WPRI 12."

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  • THE EFFECTS OF THE CORONAVIRUS

  • ARE BEING FELT AT STORES IN

  • RHODE ISLAND.

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  • HAND SANTIZITER AND FACE MASKS

  • ARE GETTING HARDER TO FIND AS

  • MORE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO

  • PROTECT AGAINST THE VIRUS.

  • EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER ANITA

  • BAFFONI SPOKE WITH THE OWNER OF

  • A LOCAL PHARMACY AND JOINS US

  • NOW FROM THE TECH CENTER WITH

  • MORE. ANITA?

  • THE OWNER OF SIMPSON'S PHARMACY

  • SAYS CUSTOMERS ARE PANICKING...

  • TRYING TO BUY PLENTY HAND

  • SANTIZER AND FACE MASKS TO

  • PREVENT AGAINST THE CORONAVIRUS.

  • BUT LIKE OTHER STORES ACROSS THE

  • COUNTRY, SIMPSON'S CAN'T KEEP UP

  • WITH THE DEMAND.

  • EVEN THOUGH THE CORONAVIRUS IS

  • *NOT* WIDESPREAD IN RHODE

  • ISLAND, PEOPLE ARE TAKING TO

  • PHARMACIESS TO BUY PREVENTATIVE

  • SUPPLIES.

  • "WE SOLD OUT YESTERDAY. ALL OF

  • MY WHOLESALERS ARE CURRENTLY OUT

  • OF HAND SANTIZER, HAND WIPES AND

  • MASKS."

  • SIMPSON'S PHARMACY ON NEWPORT

  • AVENUE IN PAWTUCKET DOESN'T

  • USUALLY SELL A LOT OF HAND

  • SANITZER

  • BUT NOW THAT MORE ARE WORRIED OF

  • CONTRACTING THE VIRUS, SIMPSON'S

  • HAS SOLD *FIVE CASES IN JUST TWO

  • DAYS.

  • "WE HAVE OF COURSE KEPT A STASH

  • BEHIND THE REGISTER FOR OUR

  • PEOPLE. WE WERE ACTUALLY

  • ALLOCATING YESTERDAY. IT'S

  • CRAZY."

  • THE FAMILY OWNED PHARMACY ISN'T

  • WORRIED THAT THEY ARE LOSING

  • BUSINESS. THEY SAY THE *OPPOSITE

  • IS HAPPENEING.

  • "IF ANYTHING IT'S INCREASED OUR

  • FOOT TRAFFIC BECAUSE WE HAVE

  • PEOPLE WHO WE HAVE NEVER SEEN

  • PEOPLE WHO DRIVE BY AND SAY, 'OU

  • PHARMACY, MAYBE THEY HAVE IT.'

  • STOUKIDES

  • SAYS A LOCAL NURSING HOME ASKED

  • TO PURCHASE FACE MASKS, BUT AT

  • SIMPSON'S, THEY SOLD OUT OF

  • MASKS *THREE* WEEKS AGO.

  • BUT THE U.S. SURGEON GENERAL IS

  • URGING PEOPLE *NOT BUY MASKS SO

  • HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONS CAN USE

  • THEM WHILE CARING FOR SICK

  • PATIENTS.

  • IT'S UNCLEAR WHEN THEIR SUPPLIER

  • WILL HAVE HAND SANITIZER AND

  • MASKS AGAIN. IN THE MEANTIME,

  • STOUKIDIES [STU-KEE-DEES]

  • ENCOURAGED EVERYONE TO STAY

  • CALM.

  • "THERE WAS A LOT OF PANIC AROUND

  • THIS, PERHAPS NEEDLESSLY."

  • HEALTH OFFICIALS ARE EMPHASIZING

  • THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF

  • FROM THE VIRUS IS TO WASH YOUR

  • HANDS FREQUENTLY,

is Eyewitness News on WPRI 12."

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