Daily Caller
Date: April 03, 2020
By: Marlo Safi

Two million face masks are being sent to the U.S. by Taiwan to relieve the medical supply shortage

caused by the coronavirus pandemic, largely thanks to Republican Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner, numerous sources reported. 

Taiwan is sending two million face masks to the U.S., one million of which will go to the federal government and the other million will be divided among the states, Denver CBS affiliate reported Friday. Colorado will receive 100,000 which is 10% of the total to be sent. The masks are expected to arrive in Colorado next week. (RELATED: Taiwan Says It Warned WHO About Coronavirus In December, But Its Warnings Were Ignored)

Gardner has worked closely with Taiwan as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, and in August 2019, Tawainese President Tsai Ing-Wen even visited Colorado because of Gardner, marking the first time a sitting president of the country had visited the state.

“I didn’t think that it would come down to a global pandemic and the partnerships that we would we’d rely on in a global pandemic. And I’ve got to be honest, Shaun, when found out that we had been able to secure, with the great generosity of Taiwan, two million masks — and we’d have a huge chunk of that coming to Colorado — I cried. Because I have’t been able to sleep at night knowing that so many people are facing the anxieties they face,” Gardner said, according to CBS.
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