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title: ""As pleas for protective masks continue amid the coronavirus…"
date: 2020-04-24
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
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# "As pleas for protective masks continue amid the coronavirus…

*April 24, 2020 · Facebook*

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[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/21/indutex-usa-says-fema-seized-n-95-respirators-national-stockpile/2996256001/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/21/indutex-usa-says-fema-seized-n-95-respirators-national-stockpile/2996256001/){target="_blank"}
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\"As pleas for protective masks continue amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Delaware supplier of medical equipment is disputing the legality of what he said were federal seizures of hundreds of thousands of N95 respirators.\
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George Gianforcaro, owner of the small, Newark, Delaware-based Indutex USA, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not pay him when it took possession of two imported shipments of masks bound for customers across the United States.\
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Those customers included Delaware nursing facilities, the state of Michigan and boat captains who steer foreign ships through U.S. bays.\
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He said he does not know where the seized N95 masks are today, or whether they have been distributed to medical facilities or others.\"\
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[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/21/indutex-usa-says-fema-seized-n-95-respirators-national-stockpile/2996256001/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/21/indutex-usa-says-fema-seized-n-95-respirators-national-stockpile/2996256001/){target="_blank"}
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