On Sunday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that the company has donated its 720,000 mask emergency reserve to health workers.
“To help, Facebook donated our emergency reserve of 720,000 masks that we had bought in case the wildfires continued.”
– Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO
Facebook is also working on sourcing a lot more to donate.
Since the coronavirus outbreak began, the U.S. has faced a surge in respirator mask demand.
Over the next 18 months, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is working on purchasing 500 million masks for the Strategic National Stockpile.
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