Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday urged construction firms to donate specialized N95 masks to their local hospitals as the government tries to head off a rush of demand for equipment to protect doctors and nurses from the coronavirus outbreak. President Trump spoke about deploying the Army Corps of Engineers to build hospitals and Mike Pence called for construction firms to donate specialized masks'They do call them M.A.S.H. hospitals,' Trump said. 'We would urge construction companies to donate their N95 masks to your local hospital and for go additional order of those industrial masks,' Pence said. 'Those industrial masks are perfectly acceptable for healthcare workers to be protected from a respiratory disease,' Pence said.

Source: Daily Mail March 17, 2020 16:13 UTC