{"id":24156,"date":"2020-04-28T23:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24156"},"modified":"2020-04-28T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T06:22:56","slug":"city-of-los-angeles-mask-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=24156","title":{"rendered":"City of Los Angeles MASK UPDATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, April 28, 2020 &#8211; Mayor<\/p>\n<p>Garcetti noted that the city has signed an agreement to puchase\u00a0<strong>24 million N95 masks<\/strong>\u00a0from a company called the Honeywell Corporation, at a rate of 79 cents, plus tax, per unit. These masks wil go to first responders and hospitals in need, at cost. The first 100,000 deliveries will arrive in May and 500,000 will arrive in June; the output will scale up to 1.2 million per month by November.<\/p>\n<p>Gene Seroka, who is currently serving as the city\u2019s chief logistics officer during the COVID-19 crisis, expanded on some other benefits of the mask program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All of the masks will be made here in the U.S. and create jobs in production, domestically, so that we don&#8217;t have to depend on international markets<\/li>\n<li>City officials will now know exactly how many masks they&#8217;ll be receiving and when they&#8217;ll arrive, so they&#8217;ll be able to update hospitals and frontline medical workers with accurate estimates<\/li>\n<li>The masks will be delivered at cost to hospitals and workers (no price gouging)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seroka added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">&#8220;Some<\/span><span class=\"transcript-snippet__content__body__word\">\u00a0<\/span><span 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The mayor said that over 1,280 companies have signed up to start production; 433 have been approved. Currently nearly 2,000 essential businesses have requested more than 1.7 million non-medical masks, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses in need of masks for their workers can visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/latest\/post\/20200428\/coronavirus.lacity.org\/laprotects\">coronavirus.lacity.org\/laprotects<\/a>\u00a0to sign up. 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