Biden plans mask giveaway as Omicron surges

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David Lim
@davidalim
SCOOP: The Biden administration is planning to announce tomorrow a plan to distribute hundreds of millions of N95 masks at pharmacies and other sites.

The masks will be sourced from the Strategic National Stockpile.

w/ @adamcancryn:

politico.com
Biden plans mask giveaway as Omicron surges
The federal government has 737 million N95 masks in the Strategic National Stockpile sourced from 12 domestic manufacturers.
3:57 PM · Jan 18, 2022

The Biden administration will announce Wednesday a plan to distribute hundreds of millions of free, high-quality masks through pharmacies and community sites, three people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO.

The masks will be N95s that are sourced from the government's Strategic National Stockpile, the people said, as part of an effort to ensure Americans can access the more-protective masks during a record surge of Covid-19 cases.

The initiative comes in response to growing pressure on the administration to encourage Americans to abandon cloth masks in favor of more protective versions, amid evidence that the cloth coverings do not work as well against the more transmissible Omicron variant.

Public health experts and former Biden transition advisers have also lobbied the White House in recent weeks to give out masks, arguing that cheap and genuine N95s are still difficult for people to find, POLITICO reported last week.

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[iemanja]

1. The mask in the picture is a KN95

which I much prefer to N95.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. I've been wearing the KN95 masks for over a year now.

The fit really snug around my face and I can adjust the nose wire so my glasses don't fog up.

[Initech]

3. Well it's better than getting a roll of paper towels tossed at you like a t-shirt cannon!

[Meowmee]

4. N95 are easier to breath in than kn95 for me

[Roland99]

5. Signed up yesterday!

[Emile]

7. For the free mask give away? You have a link?

[Roland99]

8. Was a link to a whitehouse.gov page here and in there was a link. One sec

[Roland99]

9. Here!

https://www.covidtests.gov/

[Emile]

10. That's for the covid tests. I signed up for that.

[Roland99]

11. Oh. Sorry. Just got up. Brain no worky

[Emile]

12. Been there too. I thought the mask giveaways is suppose to start today.

Hopefully someone will post a link today.

[Roland99]

13. He has a news conference today so we'll know soon

[Demovictory9]

6. excellent