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It’s clear that wearing face masks during the pandemic could save countless lives and that caring for reusable masks properly is essential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends ...

BEAMSVILLE, ON, April 16, 2020 /CNW/ - Clēan Works is pleased to announce that it has been approved by Health Canada to join the fight against COVID-19 by sanitizing N95 masks for healthcare workers.

How does California plan to stem a personal protective equipment shortage? Hospitals will sterilize previously worn N95 respirator masks and reuse them. Across California, hospitals are readying ...

Unlike cloth face masks, disposable masks like surgical masks and N95 respirators should be thrown out after one use. As a last-resort measure in emergency situations, it is possible to extend the ...

CNN — The nurses of Harlem Hospital have had enough. "This isn't a sob story. This is not a story about desperation, this is a story about the fight for our lives. And what you see here today is that ...

Are P95 or N95 masks best? Construction and factory workers were using masks long before the coronavirus overwhelmed society. Now masks are a part of everyday wear — it’s second nature to stuff one in ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they ...