The Trump administration haphazardly gave away millions of Covid-19 masks...

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The Trump administration haphazardly gave away millions of Covid-19 masks — to schools, broadcasters, and large corporations

https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/13/the-trump-administration-haphazardly-gave-away-millions-of-masks-to-schools-broadcasters-and-fortune-500-companies/

Hundreds of millions of cloth face masks shipped to U.S. agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private companies by the Trump administration appear to have been allocated in a haphazard fashion, raising questions about inequitable distribution in the effort to beat back the Covid-19 pandemic.

Under the $675 million program, businesses and other entities were provided with supplies of the free, reusable masks that in some cases far exceeded their needs, according to a STAT review of an administration document identifying more than 60,000 recipients. A charter school with roughly 140 students in Florida, for instance, received 37,500 masks. In other cases, corporations with vast resources, including a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, also received tens of thousands of the masks.

In all, 650 million masks were ordered from U.S. underwear and apparel manufacturers as part of the program; that number of masks would have been enough to give almost every American two apiece.

“You know, we ordered — I don’t know if you know — 500 million face masks,” President Trump told reporters on April 22. “We have hundreds of millions right now.”

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