Apple CEO Tim Cook donates 200,000 masks to Alabama's health care workers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBMA) — Alabama-native and Apple CEO Tim Cook donated 200,000 medical masks to Alabama's health care workers on the front lines fighting COVID-19.
On Sunday the Alabama Department of Public Health thanked Cook in a tweet, "The Alabama Department of Public Health would like to thank Apple and Tim Cook for the donation of 100,000 surgical masks and 100,000 N95 masks for Alabama's front line. Our heroes are those on the front line. Thanks to Tim for helping us protect them."
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Last week Cook, who was born in Mobile and raised in Baldwin County, announced that Apple was donating 10 million masks to health care workers across the country from a stockpile the tech company had left over from construction projects.
"Our teams at Apple have been working to help source supplies for health care providers fighting COVID-19. We're donating millions of masks for health professionals in the U.S. and Europe. To every one of the heroes on our front lines, we thank you." Cook tweeted.
As of Sunday evening, Alabama had 827 confirmed cases of COVID-19
