COVID-19 Face Mask News
100 Million Masks Challenge
- Younger American military service members are declining shots. Some colleges and universities, fearing attrition, are pledging to reopen more fully this fall.
- Schools are slowly reopening, and teachers and students are returning to their familiar surroundings. Parents are hopeful. The most common question being: Will the future ever be ‘normal’ again?
- "It has been an enormously hard year. Everybody has been impacted – every family and every business," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said.
- U.S. health officials warn governors against easing restrictions as a drop in coronavirus cases “may be stalling.” And Canada authorizes the AstraZeneca vaccine.
- President Biden said on Thursday his administration would launch a "massive campaign" to educate people about Covid-19 vaccines in coming weeks, as he commemorated the 50 millionth dose to be …
- In our news wrap Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration reported Johnson & Johnson's COVID vaccine is 66-percent effective against moderate and severe symptoms, President Biden's attempt to halt …
- President Biden's COVID-19 response team announced Wednesday it would make 25 million masks available at community health centers, food banks.
- The reusable American-made cloth masks will be distributed through Federally Qualified Community Health Centers and the nation's food banks.
- Pfizer and Moderna have pledged to make a combined total of 220 million doses available for shipment by the end of March.
- The U.S. is recording at least 80,500 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,100 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day average using JHU data.
Face Masks in the Pandemic
- At a federal compound in Connecticut, inmates in precarious health “are like sitting ducks,” one lawyer said. Credit…Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times Supported by By Roni Caryn Rabin Shacarey …
- Since the onset of the coronavirus in the U.S. in March 2020, construction crews continued work on jobsites working on infrastructure and real estate development projects. Deemed as “essential …
- SAGE scientist professor Graham Medley today said 'face coverings will continue to be a measure against respiratory viruses' and could be seen in 2026 if new respiratory viruses appear.
- Despite a sharp decline in coronavirus cases and continued success with COVID-19 vaccines, it's looking likely we will still be wearing masks for some time to come.
- The country nears a harrowing milestone: 500,000 virus-related deaths. Australia begins its vaccination campaign.
- Mike Bowen’s warehouse outside Fort Worth, Texas, was piled high with cases of medical-grade N95 face masks. His company, Prestige Ameritech, can churn out 1 million masks every four days, but he …
- With new mutations of COVID-19 proving to be more contagious than their predecessors, it might be time to invest in some medical grade N95 masks, which are finally being stocked and sold to the …
- Evidence of the efficacy of face masks to help control the spread of the novel coronavirus has grown since the start of the pandemic. But a Facebook video uses false and misleading claims to tell …
- 1, 2021 — CDC officials emphasized the importance of wearing face masks that properly fit the face to slow the … the spread of COVID-19, particularly with the new spread of coronavirus variants …
- (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) A lot has changed in a year, including the Covid-19 coronavirus … pandemic in U.S., the advice to not buy and hoard N95 face masks …
Making Homemade Masks
- In light of new research, the CDC is once again emphasizing wearing a face mask with a proper fit and multiple layers to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Experts say if you have to keep adjusting your …
- France has issued a decree banning certain homemade masks from being … they provide better protection, but they have to be used correctly and must fit closer to the face,” Alexandre Bleibtreu …
- It was reported last week that Germany would ban homemade face coverings on public … Respirators (FFP2) and 3-ply surgical masks (FFP1) are said to offer greater protection, though as the …
- Homemade masks will be banned in … “Theoretically they provide better protection, but they have to be used correctly and must fit closer to the face,” Alexandre Bleibtreu, an infection …
- Confronting new, more transmissible variants of the coronavirus and a winter spike in infections, a number of European countries are beginning to make medical-grade face masks mandatory in the …
- If you’re looking for a a reusable face mask there are … OK for people that prefer more protection, but not OK for those that don't like wearing a mask. The masks come in bright colours …
- Another recent study suggested that a homemade cloth face masks likely need … it can decrease protection of the people around because the masks release exhaled air through their openings …
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- While medical face masks should … used if inexpensive cloth masks are unavailable. Scientists who study airborne diseases advise that thicker fabric will give more protection, and Linsey Marr …