Patriots’ Robert Kraft uses team plane to help get N95 masks for Massachusetts, N.Y. hospitals

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft helped to secure and arrange for more than 1.7 million N95 masks to be delivered to hospitals in Massachusetts and New York, government and team officials said.

The initial shipment of approximately 1.2 million masks is scheduled to arrive Thursday afternoon in Boston from China and is being carried by the Patriots’ team plane.