The chairman and CEO of 3M says the technology and manufacturing giant sent 500,000 respirator masks from a plant in South Dakota to Seattle and New York on Sunday.
“Like everyone, I see the pleas from our heroic doctors, nurses and first responders for the respirators and other equipment they desperately need,” said 3M Chairman and CEO Mike Roman in a statement. “I want people to know we are doing all we can to meet the demands of this extraordinary time and get supplies from our plants to where they’re most needed as quickly as possible.”
3M says it has ramped up its production of N95 respirators in the outbreak of the debilitating respiratory illness, COVID-19, pumping out 35 million a month. It hopes to produce 2 billion over the next year.
Health care facilities are facing a shortage of respirators around the country, but especially in the regions hardest hit by coronavirus. A vast majority (90%) of the masks, says 3M, are designated for healthcare workers.
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If this is another example of the damage that those nasty rich businessmen that Bernie and Cortez keep complaining about, it’s time to thank God for CREATING THEM, and not CONSUMING them in such times of national challenge. We should be strengthening them by buying more of their products, not taxing and regulating them out of existence, leaving only bloviating politicians to stand between us and the darkness, and the usual slow social death that their failed policies of national strength destruction offer. These liberals remind me of the succubus strength destroying wives who complain of unfair treatment and inequality, all the while spending the family resources on social trivialities like there is no tomorrow, and when tomorrow comes and the wolf shows up at the door, just jump on the backs of their husbands for safety adding no solutions to the problems, just putting another monkey on the backs of the socially strong.
Good work 3M. THIS IS How it should be done. BUSINESSES stepping up in times of need. NOT THE GOVT seizing them.
I totally agree. 3M makes quality products. The Doctors , Nurse and others can feel safe knowing the masks are made in America and not China.
Evil corporations out there saving lives.
How many lives has AOC ever saved? As a former bartender I submit that some of her patrons may have left there drunk and died in car accidents. Nobody could possibly be surprised if this turned out to be fact. It’s definitely plausible, if not probable.
We know she kills jobs. Has she killed people? You be the judge.
With how many folks have committed suicide after losing a job? So who knows, maybe she has (indirectly).