Every day since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, frontline healthcare workers in New York State have risked their own health while caring for patients potentially infected with the new ...

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 ...

The University of Louisville has begun production on newly-developed N95 style face masks.Researchers invented them to address shortages of personal protective equipment. The masks are low-cost, ...

The reusable cloth masks people have been using for the past year or more may look a little worse for the wear. But new research from the University of Colorado Boulder finds that washing and drying ...

Since the Covid-19 pandemic began last year, face masks and other personal protective equipment have become essential for health care workers. Disposable N95 masks have been in especially high demand ...

As more and more health experts urge Americans to swap their cloth masks for either a N95 or KN95 mask, others are explaining how often to reuse the single mask. Omicron is far more transmissible than ...

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• A new study found that washing and drying reusable cloth masks can still work after several washes. • After 52 washes, cloth masks still effectively filtered the virus out. • Cloth masks offer some ...

In December 2019, a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was first detected in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province. On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledged and characterized the ...

LOS ANGELES - While health officials and government leaders are advocating and even requiring individuals to wear masks in public amid the pandemic, a new article suggests that some masks, ...

NEW YORK, March 9, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Surgical and respirator masks can be defined as medical devices that are used to cover mouth, nose and chin, in order to protect the healthcare professionals ...