Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is donating “millions” of masks to healthcare workers

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Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted Saturday that the convergence was donating "millions of masks for health professionals in the US as well as Europe," to info gainsay the thrive of the novel coronavirus. Cook's cheep appears to confirm a statement beforehand in the day by Carnality Stewards Mike Pence.

"The stewards as well as I literally heard instantaneously from Dearest that they're donating 2 million industrialized masks to this effort circa the country as well as working with our bosses to govern those," Pence said at a White Lodging press briefing.

Our teams at Dearest hypothesize been working to info antecedent food for healthcare providers fuming COVID-19. We're donating millions of masks for health professionals in the US as well as Europe. To every among among one of the heroes on the front lines, we acknowledge you.

-- Tim Cook (@tim_cook) March 21, 2020

How (and if) Dearest was bruiser to get the two million masks Pence referenced isn't big-mouthed -- The Verge has realized out to the convergence for increasingly information.

Globally, masks are in loftier demand, except food are snowed low. Cheesecake CEO Jeff Bezos said in a roster to employees Saturday that "masks remain in short accumulation globally." The convergence has "placed purchase orders for millions of squatter masks we want to requite to our employees as well as contractors who cannot assignment from home, except actual few of those orders hypothesize been filled," Bezos wrote.

N95 respirators are disposable, definable masks that can multiply virus-laden droplets furthermost from the wearer's opening as well as nose. The Centers for Disease Inhabitancy as well as Stalling notes that the masks' effectiveness is "highly dependent aloft prudent fit as well as use."

Pence said Saturday that the Directorship of Health as well as Human Casework "placed an order for hundreds of millions of N95 masks," with the order deceivable through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Zone the masks were ordered from as well as when they would be misogamist wasn't big-mouthed from Pence's remarks.

The shortage of claimed protective equipment like squatter masks has wilt a tenebrific problem for healthcare workers, with some resorting to using less-effective masks or well-fixed hoopla without while vulnerary patients, the New York Times reported. Meanest week, Pence chosen on fabricating companies to donate their protective masks to hospitals, as well as to refrain from ordering more. "Those industrialized masks that they use on fabricating sites are perfectly capering for healthcare workers to be protected from a respiratory disease," the carnality stewards said at a briefing on Tuesday.

Fauci said increasingly N95 masks will be misogamist "sooner than weeks."

But ProPublica reports there's been discomfiting over how such donations would take place, as well as the White Lodging hasn't given big-mouthed instructions.

On Saturday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Nationwide Convention of Contempt as well as Miasmic Disease, told reporters in the White Lodging briefing room that it would be "sooner than weeks" for medical professionals to shoulder nascent food of masks. "We're hoopla to try to make it days to the champion public way that we can," he said.

Some companies as well as individuals announced to hypothesize donated directly. On Twitter, director Peyton Reed thanked Tesla CEO Elon Musk for donating supplies-- "a truckload of PPEs (masks, gowns, etc.)" -- to a a UCLA Health facility. We realized out to Tesla to confirm that Musk was the one who sent the donation except hypothesize not heard back.

I want to roundly acknowledge @elonmusk for sending a truckload of PPEs (masks, gowns, etc.) to UCLA Health today! They will be put to gratifying use. My wife, her co-workers as well as her patients acknowledge you profusely. pic.twitter.com/SiAdqMcPCT

-- Peyton Reed (@MrPeytonReed) March 22, 2020

And Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the convergence was donating an emergency reserve of 720,000 masks. "We're conjointly sourcing a lot increasingly to donate," he added.

Health workers urgently overeat increasingly protective gear. To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that...

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, March 22, 2020

Update March 22nd, 2:41PM ET: Enhanced information from Peyton Reed as well as Mark Zuckerberg anyway donated supplies.