The 100th flight arrived April 30 and the 200th flight arrived June 2. Kennedy International airport March 29, FEMA completed 227 flights with an additional 22 scheduled, or in transit, for a total of approximately 249 flights (as of June 18). Since the first airbridge flight landed at New York’s John F. Project Airbridge’s shipments addressed the immediate shortfall in our nation’s PPE needs by arriving up to nine times faster than cargo deliveries by sea - allowing prioritized distributors to deliver medical supplies to the point of greatest need across the nation during the height of the COVID-19 response. Nearly 1.5 million N-95 respiratorsMore than 2.5 million face shieldsĩ37 million glovesMore than 2.4 million thermoters

WHAT PROJECT AIRBRIDGE HAS ACHIEVED FROM MARCH 29 THROUGH JUNE 18 This shipment method, the focus of the acceleration effort of FEMA’s supply chain task force, was a temporary solution to expedite the transportation of commercially distributed PPE from international manufacturers to the United States. medical supply distributors to bring personal protective equipment (PPE) and other critical medical supplies into the U.S. WASHINGTON – Project Airbridge was created to shorten the amount of time it takes for U.S.

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