The 400 million masks will be made available at pharmacies and community health centers.
— The Biden administration will make 400 million N95 masks available to Americans for free starting next week, a White House official told CNN, the latest federal step aimed at reining in the COVID-19 surge.
“This is the largest deployment of personal protective equipment in U.S. history,” the official said. The 400 million non-surgical N95 masks amount to more than half of the 750 million stored in the Strategic National Stockpile, a figure that tripled over the last year as the White House sought to boost reserves. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention recently advised that well-fitting respirators approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health — such as N95 masks — offer “the highest level of protection” against COVID-19.
The administration’s step comes as the U.S. grapples with an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 cases. An average of more than 750,000 new Covid-19 infections were reported every day over the past week, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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