WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden says the administration expects to send millions of masks to people across the country “very soon.”
Such a plan was considered and abandoned by the Donald Trump administration.
Biden did not provide details, including the cost, timing and type of mask to be delivered. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president confirmed the plan in a virtual roundtable discussion Tuesday with four black essential workers: a firefighter from St. Louis. Louis and EMT, a pharmacist from Chicago, an employee of a child care center in Columbus, Ohio, and a district store manager in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Biden asked everyone to wear face masks for the first 100 days of his term. He also demanded that the mask be worn on federal buildings and on public transportation.