When you piece together today's AP story and the various reports of seizures of shipments to states, what looks likely is that these states and hospital systems made their orders well before the feds did. When the feds finally got around to ordering stuff, a lot of ...

2/ the shelves were bare. So part of the game of catch up was seizing the orders or local governments and hospital who were more on top of things. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/feds-only-started-ordering-masks-as-lockdowns-were-starting