The Federal Emergency Management Agency is working with global manufacturers for critical supplies and distributing them domestically.
“We are working with manufacturers from Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, India, Honduras, and Mexico. Contracted flights arrived at private-sector distribution hubs this morning in Chicago, and more will be arriving in Ohio on Tuesday. From there, supplies are being sent to other states through private sector distribution networks,” a FEMA spokesperson said in a statement today.
The first flights landed this past weekend at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and the personal protective equipment is “being distributed to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut,” the spokesperson said.
