SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state has started distributing free N95 masks in bulk to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Seattle Times reports in a story on Saturday that the first shipments went out after the Department of Health approved a plan to distribute masks to counties and tribes. The state has shipped about 6 million N95 masks over the last month. That’s as many masks sent out as in the first eight months of the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University reports that Washington has more than 195,000 infections and 2,879 deaths due to the virus.
Washington shipping N95 masks in bulk from its stockpile
