From USA Today:
“Biden
administration to deliver more than 25 million masks to health centers, food
pantries”
The Biden
administration announced Wednesday that it would distribute more than 25
million masks to over 1,300 community health centers and 60,000 food pantries
and soup kitchens in an effort to reach underserved communities and as part of
the president's promise to make the pandemic response more equitable. Between March and May, the administration will
send well-fitted cloth masks, available in child and adult sizes, that can be
washed for reuse, White House COVID-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients
announced in a news briefing. The masks will comply with coronavirus guidance
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, be made in the U.S. and
will not affect the availability of masks for health care workers. "Not
all Americans are wearing masks regularly, not all Americans have access and
not all masks are equal," Zients said. "With this action, we are
helping to level the playing field, giving vulnerable populations quality,
well-fitted masks."
The CDC has
recommended wearing a mask as a key step to limiting the spread of COVID-19,
and President Joe Biden has asked every American to wear a mask for his first
100 days in office. The Biden administration has required masks in federal
buildings and on public transportation. The Department of Health and Human
Services, in partnership with the Department of Defense, will deliver masks to
Federally Qualified Health Centers. Among these health centers, two-thirds of
the people served live in poverty, 60% are racial or ethnic minorities, and
nearly 1.5 million are homeless, according to a fact sheet provided by the
White House. The Defense Department will
work with the Department of Agriculture to deliver masks to about 300 food
banks that extend across a network of 60,000 food pantries, soup kitchens and
other food distribution points. Americans
can pick up individual wrapped masks at any of these locations, Zients said.
Twelve million to 15 million Americans are expected to receive masks as a
result of the campaign, the White House said. The campaign rollout came a day after Biden
told essential workers at a virtual roundtable that he expected his
administration to send millions of masks around the country "very
shortly."
^ At this point
if you aren’t wearing a mask you are just dumb and probably aren’t going to
wear one ever. ^
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