masks on Friday, Jan. 28, and will continue on a rolling basis in the days and weeks following. Participating stores will have signage indicating mask availability.”
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Where can you find free N95 masks?
The masks will be available at a number of local pharmacies and community health centers, a White House official told CNN.
Participating pharmacies include Hy-Vee, Meijer, CVS, Walgreens and Kroger.
Some of the first masks arrived in the Midwest on Friday, including at Hy-Vee grocery stores in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Nebraska and at Meijer stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin.
Masks also are expected to start arriving at Southeastern Grocers locations as early as Friday, and they’ll be available at Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie in-store pharmacies.
CVS and Walgreens are also expected to receive masks.
CVS pharmacies should receive and begin distributing free N95 masks in the coming weeks once the supply from the federal government comes in, spokesman Matt Blanchette told CNN on Monday.
Meanwhile, Walgreens expects to have free N95 masks available at some locations starting Friday, according to a company spokesperson.
“We are pleased to partner with the Administration to make N95 masks in varying sizes available free of charge at participating Walgreens locations while supplies last,” a Walgreens spokesperson wrote in an email to CNN on Monday.
Kroger shoppers will also be able to find free N95 masks in stores with pharmacies, according to a company statement Monday.
The free masks — from the Strategic National Stockpile — will also start arriving at about 100 to 200 community health centers in the initial phase, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration.
By mid-Feburary, the agency anticipates that the masks will be available to all health centers, Amy Simmons Farber, a spokesperson for the National Association of Community Health Centers, told CNN.
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The masks are being delivered just as the first round of free COVID tests are arriving in the mail for many Americans.