If you’ve put your COVID face masks into retirement, it’s time to start wearing them again if you live in a large region of the United States that could potentially be affected by wildfires — ...
N95 respirators, the gold standard of filtration masks, are back in the pandemic spotlight because of the highly contagious Omicron Covid-19 variant. Unlike earlier in the pandemic, N95s are now ...
WASHINGTON -- The CDC says it plans to update its mask "information" to "best reflect the multiple options available to people and the different levels of protection they provide." At Wednesday's ...
After asserting for years that firefighters cannot do their jobs while wearing protective masks, the U.S. Forest Service will ...
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 federal government has issued new guidelines to wildland firefighters for the voluntary use of protective masks. The move ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- We're learning more about exactly how federal investigators intercepted fraud involving 39 million N95 masks. Millions of them were set to be purchased by hospitals right here ...
So, it’s safe to assume Violet wears a mask whenever she feels the environment is unsafe or poses a higher risk of spreading or contracting illness. It’s not entirely clear if she masks up only when ...