LAS VEGAS, NV – FEBRUARY 24: Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson is greeted by a guest before a speech by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (not pictured) at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas on February 24, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pence’s speech to the group of Republican Jewish leaders and donors follows his trip last week to Germany where he visited the former Dachau concentration camp and a surprise stop on Wednesday at a Jewish cemetery in Missouri that had been vandalized. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Jewish Insider reported on March 30 that casino mogul and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson is donating 2 million masks to hospitals in New York and Nevada.
According to the report, the masks were in made China; 250,000 of the masks are going toward “the Trump administration’s coordinated effort to assist health workers,” per the report.
Hospitals nationwide are experiencing shortages of masks and ventilators, particularly in New York, where hospitals have been overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. President Donald Trump said on March 24 that the federal government will provide 8 million ventilators and 14 million masks to medical personnel throughout the country.
Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands chairman and CEO who also is a major figure in Republican politics, said in a January statement that the coronavirus is “unique and serious. A top priority is the health and safety of our employees and guests and we are doing everything we can to support the governments in both Macau and China.” He also lobbied for the passage of the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill that Trump signed into law on March 27; Adelson’s businesses will not receive any of the aid, Casino.org reported.
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