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 ...

Health care workers in Minnesota are reportedly reusing N95 face masks amid a continued shortage of these protective respirators. Hospitals are taking steps to extend the use of a single mask, ...

Registered nurses performs a N95 mask fit test and wear a qualitative test hood for a scent test, at the new ICU wing at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center. (Photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times via ...

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Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers West announced Thursday that it located 39 million N95 masks and will make them available to state and local governments and health care ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Counterfeit N95 masks are making their way into the U.S. health care system and into the hands of those ...

As intensive care unit specialists in New York City, we are concerned about the increasing rates of COVID-19 infection, which may once again overwhelm our hospitals, in parts of the United States. The ...

Here is an example of health care professionals in Oakland California, undergoing fit testing for N95 respiratory masks. A person sprays in a substance to determine if the person can smell or taste it ...

A fierce proponent of wearing face coverings during the pandemic, the mayor of Plattsburgh has been coordinating donations of N95 masks and face shields this week. The materials are being given at no ...

Vice President Pence said Thursday that new legislation will allow tens of millions more protective masks to reach U.S. health-care workers each month, beginning immediately, but it was still unclear ...

Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He'd stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He'd wash his clothes in ...

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