With a shortage of masks and even rationing of gel alcohol, the situation of public service workers is different from that of private reference hospitals in São Paulo.[2][3] Stores specializing in medical supplies no longer have alcohol gels and masks. Among them, those known as N95, used by health professionals. With the worldwide coronavirus pandemic and the great search for protection, street vendors (without sales in the middle of the pandemic crisis) have been taking advantage of the demand for equipment and trying to profit from it.[4]