Up to this point in the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in the United States have advised healthy civilians against wearing face masks, despite a growing grassroots masks-for-all ...

The time has come to start covering up. On April 3, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a recommendation that individuals should wear fabric masks in public spaces where social distancing can ...

Approximately one in five people globally are in quarantine. It’s necessary if we want to avoid overwhelming our hospitals and medical staff during the coronavirus pandemic. In the U.S., however, our ...

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CHICAGO -- Bill Purdue waterproofs basements for a living, but he has spent the past few days in his buddy's Washington, Indiana, auto trim and upholstery shop cutting rectangles of cotton fabric that ...

Here's what scientists and healthcare workers say about making homemade protective gear and medical supplies amid the coronavirus pandemic. Tailor Elase Wong making masks out of patterned material at ...

The coronavirus pandemic is currently ravaging not only human bodies around the globe, but our healthcare systems. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other hospital staff are overwhelmed with new ...

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Here’s how to do it. By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist It shouldn’t have come to this, but here we are. The world is running out of face masks for health care workers, which is one reason American ...

It was the last thing Sabrina Roffman of New City, New York, wanted to hear: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, local medical facilities were running out of protective face masks. Her husband, ...