Foreign med supplies land in US

WASHINGTON - A commercial aircraft carrying 80 tons of gloves, masks, gowns and other medical supplies from Shanghai (China) touched down in New York on March 29, the first of 22 flights that will funnel much-needed goods to the U.S. by early April in the battle against the coronavirus outbreak. The aircraft was loaded with 130,000 N95 masks, 1.8M face masks and gowns, 10M gloves and thousands of thermometers for distribution to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, said Lizzie Litzow, a spokesperson the U.S. government's Federal Emergency Management Agency. She said flights would be arriving in Chicago on March 30 and in Ohio on March 31. Supplies are to be sent from there to other states using private-sector distribution networks. The shipment is the product of a public-private partnership - led by presidential senior adviser Jared Kushner - with major health care distributors like McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health, Owens & Minor, Medline and Henry Schein, a White House spokesman said. (Source: NYT 03/230/20) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/economy/coronavirus-china-supplies.html