COVID-19 face masks: Tech entrepreneur looks outside U.S. to combat scarcity

The COVID-19-induced scramble to obtain face masks hit home for Bay Area tech entrepreneur Mark Linsey when his father, a Southern California physician, told Mark he was facing a shortage.

Linsey set off to find a face mask supply for his dad, but with talk of price gouging and the resale of stolen supplies, he wanted to avoid competing for the scarce N95 masks in America.