The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to Americans starting next week.
The White House said Wednesday the masks would come from the government's Strategic National Stockpile, which has more than 750 million of the highly protective masks on hand.
The White House's new effort comes days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance to recommend that Americans seek out surgical-grade masks over cloth masks. "Cloth masks are not as good in terms of filtration or fit. Surgical masks have a better filtration but they're also not fitted. N95 masks are put through rigorous conditions for testing," said Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious disease doctor at Stanford University.
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