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Palettes of N95 respirator masks are off-loaded from the New England Patriots football team's customized Boeing 767 jet on the tarmac, Thursday, April 2, 2020, at Logan Airport in Boston, after returning from China. The Kraft family deployed the Patriots team plane to China to fetch more than one million masks for use by front-line health care workers to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Patriots use team plane to help Mass., fly N95 in from China

By Kyle Hightower Apr. 02, 2020 03:44 PM EDT

A passer-by walks past a closed social club, left, in Somerville, Mass., Thursday, April 2, 2020. Many people are working from home and many business have indefinitely closed out of concern about the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Patriots plane ferries critical masks from China to US

By Mark Pratt And Steve Leblanc Apr. 02, 2020 02:56 PM EDT