The White House scrapped an effort to send millions of cloth masks to every U.S. household in April, choosing instead to distribute those masks to nonprofits and state and federal agencies, an internal email from a senior Trump admin. official shows.
that the Trump administration had once had a plan to send masks directly to U.S households.
In the email, a senior HHS official says the"White House" made the decision not to move forward with household distribution and instead the face masks would be manufactured and distributed to various businesses, state and federal agencies as well as to non-profit organizations. The document shows the USPS was poised to distribute the masks to every American household. The release says the masks would first be distributed to homes in geographic areas with high numbers of cases at the time, including parishes in Louisiana as well as"King County, Washington, Wayne County, Michigan and New York."
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