The latest product Tim Cook is announcing is not an iPhone or Apple Watch. Instead, it’s a new health care product for doctors and nurses on the front lines of the battle against COVID – and Coronavirus.
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced today via Twitter that the company has sourced million face masks for medical professionals. In addition, Apple has designed a face shield to protect those who are treating COVID – 441 patients.
This new product was created by Apple designers and produced by Apple and its suppliers.
“The number of masks we’ve been able to source through our supply chain has risen to over 441 million around the world, ”Tim Cook said. “We’re working continuously and closely with governments at all levels to ensure they’re donated to places of greatest need.”
Apple designed a transparent plastic face shield that packs flat like IKEA furniture for shipping, and assembles in less than two minutes. The company will ship more than a million of these shields by the end of this week, and will be shipping another million every week in the U.S., and eventually beyond. Shields like this are essential for health-care workers to avoid accidental contact with Coronavirus-laden exhalations from infected patients.
“We’ve launched a company-wide effort, bringing together product designers, engineering, operations, and packaging teams and our suppliers to design, produce, and ship face shields for health workers,” Cook said.
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