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 ...

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 ...

Nurses, researchers and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce protection against the coronavirus and other airborne pathogens ...

Three years after more than 3,600 health workers died of COVID-19, occupational safety experts warn those on the front lines may once again be at risk if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Many health care professionals and scientists expressed outrage after the CDC released a draft of its proposals in June, concluding that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in ...

An emergency room nurse at Providence, R.I.-based Roger Williams Medical Center invented a portable case for clinicians to store their N95 masks, reports NBC affiliate WJAR. Timothy Aurelio has been ...

Hospitals across the state are scrambling to pull millions of fake N95 masks off their shelves in the midst of a pandemic. King County Health Officer: Drop in COVID cases the ‘eye of the hurricane’ ...

One woman spent 12 hours sewing masks for hospital workers. A California woman spent 12 hours straight sewing masks for those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic -- and she's not stopping ...