Jan 19, 2022, 06:16am
The White House is expected to announce Wednesday that 400 million N95 face masks will be free at thousands of locations across the country from late January.
N95 masks will be free in the US.
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The masks will be free at community health centers and pharmacy across the country, according to multiple news reports.
The official said that the masks will be available to the public at the end of the week and at the health centers late next week.
The program will be fully operational by February.
President Joe Biden announced last week that he would give away high quality masks to Americans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises people to wear a tight-fitting mask with effective filters like the N95, KN95 or KF94 if they want to protect themselves against the highly transmissible omicron variant. According to the CDC, these masks can remove at least 85% of airborne particles. Some countries, such as France, have gone as far as banning homemade and some shop-bought cloth masks, and others, like Austria, have made FF2P masks mandatory in indoor settings.
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Anna Miller, executive director of Project N95, a non-profit that vets mask distributors, applauded the Biden Administration's efforts to help Americans upgrade their respiratory protection to the gold standard. Miller said there is no shortage of masks thanks to a robust domestic manufacturing sector.
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