Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there's been a worldwide shortage of face masks -- particularly, the N95 ones worn by health care workers. Although these coverings provide the highest level of ...

As governments around the world struggle to build up a supply of N95 masks for healthcare workers—navigating price gouging, counterfeit respirators, scammers, and fierce competition from other ...

As new coronavirus cases spike in the U.S.—Florida alone now has 12 times more cases than the entire country of Australia—healthcare workers still face a shortage of N95 masks. Many hospitals are now ...

WOODBRIDGE, Conn.—A subsidiary of injection molder Mack Molding Inc. teamed with a Vermont medical center to adapt a snorkel normally used by divers into protective gear for medical staff. Staff at ...

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 ...

Nurses and doctors have gone to creative extremes to reuse the same masks, gloves and scrubs they need to treat contagious coronavirus patients. But if a prototype mask created by researchers proves ...

Researchers have developed a membrane that can be attached to a regular N95 mask and replaced when needed. The filter has a smaller pore size than normal N95 masks, potentially blocking more virus ...