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Apple Donating Millions of Masks to Healthcare Professionals in U.S. and Europe

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Apple plans to donate two million N95 respirator masks to hospitals in the United States, Vice President Mike Pence announced in a press briefing today. Apple has since elaborated on this announcement, noting that it is donating millions of masks for health professionals in the United States and Europe.

With personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies dwindling across the United States, hospitals are in dire need of masks, gowns, and more.

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Apple has taken several initiatives to help combat the spread of COVID-19. It was recently announced that Apple would be closing Apple Stores until further notice and has committed $15 million to date for COVID-19 relief efforts. In addition, Apple Card customers are able to enroll in a program that will allow them to skip March payment without interest. It was also announced on Thursday that Apple has pledged a substantial donation to Italy's first responders and medical personnel.


Update: Apple CEO Tim Cook says Apple is donating millions of masks to health professionals in the United States and Europe.

Update 2: Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said that Apple is donating over 9 million N95 masks to hospitals in the U.S.

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Scottsoapbox
79 months ago
Great!

But where is Apple getting the 2 million masks?
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cmaier
79 months ago
How is this “political?” Is the disease running for office?
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iOS Geek
79 months ago
Much appreciated, Apple!!! Anything we can get will be a huge help.
People have been stealing our masks :mad:
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konqerror
79 months ago

Split into 1000 hospitals, that's 2000 per hospital. Should be enough for a while.
CDC says to change after every patient encounter unless they're unavailable. N95 masks are to be changed every 2-4 hours anyways as they absorb exhaled water and become hard to breathe.

If you have 400 workers in a hospital, using 2 per shift, that's not going to even last 24 hours.
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lunarworks
79 months ago

I wonder why Apple and Google and facebook aren't donating their immense data center cpu/gpu capability to help work on a cure. Heck, it took Google like 2 weeks to even come up with a website. I guess building a website is hard.
IBM's Summit supercomputer found 77 possible compounds that can be used to fight it.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/US-Dept-of-Energy-Brings-the-Worlds-Most-Powerful-Supercomputer-the-IBM-POWER9-based-Summit-Into-the-Fight-Against-COVID-19
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Gasu E.
79 months ago

Good for them. 2 million is a big number. Split into 1000 hospitals, that's 2000 per hospital. Should be enough for a while.
It doesn't go as far as you think. They are one time (NOT one day) use-- you need to throw them out after each patient. If you have a patient being treated for serious virus symptoms, that would be like 5 medical professionals. So basically this is like 400,000 single patient incidents. I'm guessing we need on the order of 100x this, in the USA alone. But it's still significant.
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