A commercial aircraft carrying 80 tons of gloves, masks, gowns and other medical supplies from Shanghai touched down in New York on Sunday, the first of 22 scheduled flights that White House officials say will funnel much-needed goods to the United States by early April as it battles the world's largest coronavirus outbreak.

“中国给我们送来了一批非常好的物资。”特朗普补充说，其他国家送给我们物资，让我非常惊讶，是非常高兴的那种惊讶。”

"China sent us some stuff, which was terrific," Trump told reporters in the White House Rose Garden.He added: "Other countries sent us things that I was very surprised at, very happily surprised."

周日抵达纽约的物资，只是医院所需物资的一小部分。美国卫生与公共服务部估计，如果疫情持续一年，美国的口罩需求量将达到35亿只。

While the goods that arrived in New York on Sunday…represent just a tiny portion of what American hospitals need. The Department of Health and Human Services has estimated that the United States will require 3.5 billion masks if the pandemic lasts a year.

…where newly built factories are churning out supplies even as China's own epidemic wanes.

"China has abundant protective equipment now, and the rest of the world has a huge shortage," said James McGregor, the chairman of greater China for APCO Worldwide.

世界各国、美国各级政府官员和个人之间甚至形成了购买竞争，他们都想从中国购买防护装备、呼吸机和其他急需物资。

That overwhelming demand has set off a race among foreign countries, American officials at all levels of government and private individuals to acquire protective gear, ventilators and other much-needed goods from China…

American governors, mayors and lawmakers have been trying to arrange their own shipments of products from China, with some saying the federal government has been moving too slowly, which risks losing out to other foreign buyers.

American officials have leaned on sister cities and province relationships, liaison offices they had set up in China to try to secure scarce equipment.

In the private sector, a variety of wealthy individuals, charitable organizations and corporate executives with connections to China have also stepped forward to try to help get goods to the United States.

The Committee of 100, a leadership organization of Americans of Chinese descent, has raised $1 million to purchase medical supplies and protective gear from around the world to bring to the United States.

纽约市史坦顿岛医护人员收到美国华人团体捐赠的口罩 图源：新华社

Mr. Li said he was also speaking with China's largest ventilator manufacturer, whose production had been bought up by parties in Europe through September, to try to persuade them to send a few hundred ventilators to the United States.

The Trump administration has been seeking to ramp up production of respirators, ventilators and other medical supplies in the United States, but factories are already running at full capacity. Companies like General Motors, Ford and others have stepped forward to try making these products for the first time, but they may need weeks or months before newly built facilities can ramp up their production.

When BYD began producing masks in China at the end of February, the Chinese government initially bought up everything they made.

By the beginning of March, as China was slowly recovering from its epidemic and a crisis was looming in the West, Mr. Li realized he needed to send the supplies in the other direction.

Now, the company is busy filling an earlier order of 40 million masks for Italy, but it will send its first order of a million masks to the United States on April 1, Mr. Li said.

"China has the capacity now, and the US has a huge need," Mr. Li said. "We've got to fight together."