US Government to Distribute Free N95 Masks at Walgreens and CVS

HEALTHCARE

The government of the United States is going to be making 400 million N95 non-surgical face masks form the country’s strategic stockpile that is going to be available for free to the people of the country starting from the upcoming week, and the administration of Joe Biden has been trying to stop the corona virus pandemic.

According to the reports, the face masks are going to be shipped to the community health centers and pharmacies in the coming week and the masks are going to be available for the pickup in the late days of the coming week.

The government of the United States has been leveraging the federal retail pharmacy program, which has been used by the government for the covid-19 vaccines, and also the health clinics funded by the federal government that are responsible for serving the minority groups that are hit hard by the novel corona virus infections and deaths.

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The retail chain known as CVS, that is having around 10,000 pharmacy locations across the United States including within the Walgreens and Target stores, which is having more than 9,000 stores across the countries has been planning to distribute free N95 face masks.

The mask producers of the United States has also said that, they are having the machines for producing millions of N95 masks every moth and they are also prioritized the healthcare workers, and the company 3M is having the capacity for the purpose of making over 2 billion of face masks every year across the United States.