The WH decision to nix this USPS initiative to distribute 600m masks to at-risk states will be hard to defend

That especially true given the late March timing & what President now acknowledges he knew at that point regarding how deadly the #COVID19 is 1/ https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1306614873502224385

Introducing a WH-supported initiative to deliver 600M masks to at risk states could have meaningfully helped to reduce community transmission in late March

That was still before reported cases really took off nationally 2/

And in #Louisiana, which this USPS mask initiative was meant to prioritize first 3/

New York would have gone next in getting masks via this USPS initiative in late March 4/

#Michigan after 5/

Finally, #Washington state 6/6

And, it's not like the White House was uncertain at this point on the utility of masks against #COVID19. Here is the public guidance that CDC officially released at start of April 7/7

https://web.archive.org/web/20200403234622/https:/www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/prevention.html