Trying to keep up with changing masking guidance from public health officials has been challenging to say the least. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first said that masks weren’t ...
The efforts will increase critical equipment as hospitals combat the coronavirus The U.S. military is 3D-printing face shields, designing reusable plastic N95 masks and sewing surgical masks to ...
Earlier this month, U.S. health officials said Americans should wear N95 or KN95 masks like the ones used by health care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus instead of cloth masks, which are ...
P95 and N95 are rating classifiers for masks manufactured to keep people from inhaling dust and other small particles in unsafe environments.
We don’t like it any more than you do, but it might be time to wear a mask again. While this season, there aren’t new strains like Omicron to worry about, experts are warning of the “tripledemic,” a.k ...
Though statewide coronavirus mask mandates have expired, many people have opted to continue wearing them to keep germs and other airborne viruses at bay. And with face masks now a common wardrobe ...
A shortage of N95 masks in 2020 led the CDC to craft guidelines for healthcare workers who needed to reuse them for multiple shifts, but a new study, published Jan. 26 in JAMA, has found reuse of ...
Trying to keep up with changing masking guidance from public health officials has been challenging to say the least. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first said that masks weren’t ...