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Administration to Provide Americans With 400M Free N95 Masks Beginning Next Week
The Washington Post (1/19, Diamond, Sun) reports, “The Biden administration plans to distribute 400 million high-quality N95 masks for adults free of charge at thousands of pharmacies and other locations starting next week, a White House official said.” Officials will begin “to ship masks at the end of this week,” and “the program will be fully up and running by early February.” The Post adds, “There will be three masks available per adult. Also, ‘we anticipate making additional, high-quality masks for children available in the near future,’ the official said.”
USA Today (1/19, Garrison) reports these “masks will come from the U.S.’s Strategic National Stockpile, which has tripled its supply of N95 masks to 750 million in the one year since Biden took office.”
