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An N95 respiration mask.
- As the coronavirus outbreak spreads across the globe, tech billionaires are promising to donate critical medical supplies.
- This weekend saw a flurry in Silicon Valley CEOs promising their companies would donate masks to healthcare workers.
- A spike in demand for masks means shortages are hitting hospitals.
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Tech billionaires are jostling to donate protective masks.
Over the weekend a flurry of tech CEOs including Apple's Tim Cook, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Tesla's Elon Musk promised to deliver millions of masks to healthcare workers working on the front line to fight against the coronavirus.
Panic buying means masks are in short supply even for hospital staff, so much so tha the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said last week that as a last resort $4.
The $4 cautions that members of the public do not need to wear masks unless they are caring for someone who has contracted COVID-19, and warns that they are ony effective if put on and removed properly.
Here are the tech billionaires who have promised to donate masks:
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