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Smoke from wildfires, a fact of life in the West, catches outdoor workers off guard in the East
1 year, 6 months ago

Smoke from wildfires, a fact of life in the West, catches outdoor workers off guard in the East

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The hazardous haze from Canada’s wildfires is taking its toll on people whose jobs have forced them outdoors along the U.S. East Coast even as a dystopian orange hue led to the cancelation of sports events, school field trips and Broadway plays. Food delivery workers on bicycles and scooters crisscrossed the streets of New York City even …

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US government plans to make high-quality masks available for kids, White House adviser says
2 years, 10 months ago

US government plans to make high-quality masks available for kids, White House adviser says

CNN  

CNN — High-quality masks for children soon might be easier to find in the United States, if government plans come to fruition. The US government plans to make high-quality face masks available for children, and “that process is underway,” Dr. Tom Inglesby, senior adviser to the White House Covid-19 Response Team, told CNN on Wednesday. “Already, 230 million masks have …

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Omicron Scare: Are N95 Masks Need of the Hour or Are Cloth Masks Still Safe?
2 years, 11 months ago

Omicron Scare: Are N95 Masks Need of the Hour or Are Cloth Masks Still Safe?

News 18  

Health experts suggest stepping up protection against the highly contagious omicron variant with stronger masks such as N95s or KN95s. It’s especially important now with health care systems under strain, and with people in higher-risk situations such as crowded, indoor settings for extended periods, says Linsey Marr, who studies viruses at Virginia Tech. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and …

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Covid-19: Is it Time to Stop Wearing Cloth Masks and Switch to Respirators?
2 years, 11 months ago

Covid-19: Is it Time to Stop Wearing Cloth Masks and Switch to Respirators?

News 18  

Respirators have been mandatory in public places in Austria for a year. Respirators, often wrongly called “masks” because of their appearance, are personal protective equipment made to a particular standard and designed to prevent inhalation of hazardous airborne contaminants. While some surgical masks may have better filtration capacity than cloth masks, they were designed primarily to prevent the emission of …

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With omicron, you need a mask that means business
3 years ago

With omicron, you need a mask that means business

NPR  

With omicron, you need a mask that means business Enlarge this image toggle caption Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images With another coronavirus variant racing across the U.S., once again health authorities are urging people to mask up indoors. "Cloth masks are not going to cut it with omicron," says Linsey Marr, a researcher at Virginia …

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Can the same mask used against COVID-19, keep me safe from the wildfire smoke?
3 years, 4 months ago

Can the same mask used against COVID-19, keep me safe from the wildfire smoke?

Firstpost  

Keep your house as protected from smoke as possible by keeping the windows closed and use a portable air cleaner. Research published last week found that weakened immune response caused by exposure to wildfire smoke last summer could be associated with thousands of additional infections and hundreds of deaths from COVID-19. Although smoke exposure and the coronavirus pose similar risks, …

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HOW AMERICA FLIP-FLOPPED ON FACE MASKS FOR COVID-19
3 years, 7 months ago

HOW AMERICA FLIP-FLOPPED ON FACE MASKS FOR COVID-19

Daily Mail  

DECEMBER 31 2019: Officials in Wuhan, in China's Hubei Province identify a cluster of pneumonia cases from an unknown cause. JULY 11 2020: Former President Trump was seen wearing a face mask for the first time while visiting wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, DC. APRIL 6 2021: CDC updates guidance to say that wearing …

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Hospitals still ration medical N95 masks as stockpiles swell
3 years, 10 months ago

Hospitals still ration medical N95 masks as stockpiles swell

Associated Press  

Mike Bowen’s warehouse outside Fort Worth, Texas, was piled high with cases of medical-grade N95 face masks. Turner’s employer, North Memorial Health, said in a statement that supplies have stabilized, but the company is still limiting use because “we must remain mindful of that supply” to ensure everyone’s safety. Chester “Trey” Moeller, a political appointee who served as the CDC’s …

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Scientists approve reuse of sterilised old N95 respirators as contingency protection in absence of new ones
4 years, 3 months ago

Scientists approve reuse of sterilised old N95 respirators as contingency protection in absence of new ones

Firstpost  

The scientists concluded that expired N95 respirators and sterilised old N95 respirators can be used in the absence of new N95 respirators. The scientists used different masks such as Controlled Air Purifying Respirator system, N95 masks, surgical masks and other masks approved by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The expired N95 respirators which had intact elastic straps …

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Scarcity of raw material still squeezes N95 mask makers
4 years, 3 months ago

Scarcity of raw material still squeezes N95 mask makers

Associated Press  

FRESNO, Calif. — White House officials say U.S. hospitals have all the medical supplies needed to battle the deadly virus, but frontline workers, hospital officials and even the Food and Drug Administration say that’s not the case. Pressure on the medical supply chain continues today, and in “many ways things have only gotten worse,” the American Medical Association president, Dr. …

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Scarcity of key material squeezes medical mask manufacturing
4 years, 3 months ago

Scarcity of key material squeezes medical mask manufacturing

Associated Press  

FRESNO, Calif. — Rachel Spray is still grieving the loss of her fellow nurse who died after being exposed to the novel coronavirus at Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center in California. Pressure on the medical supply chain continues today, and in “many ways things have only gotten worse,” the American Medical Association’s president, Dr. Susan Bailey, said in a recent …

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Single-use N95 Respirators Can Be Used Again After Decontamination Due to Covid19, Study Says
4 years, 3 months ago

Single-use N95 Respirators Can Be Used Again After Decontamination Due to Covid19, Study Says

News 18  

N95 respirators, which are widely worn by health care workers treating COVID-19 patients, and are designed to be used only once, can be decontaminated effectively and worn up to three times, according to a new study that could help reuse these scarce resources amidst the pandemic. “Although N95 respirators are designed for just one use before disposal, in times of …

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Woman may have caught coronavirus in airplane toilet, researchers say
4 years, 3 months ago

Woman may have caught coronavirus in airplane toilet, researchers say

CNN  

CNN — Researchers say they have evidence that a woman caught coronavirus on a flight – perhaps in the jet’s restroom. The 28-year-old woman was among about 300 South Koreans evacuated from Italy at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in Milan last March, the researchers wrote in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. …

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'Meaningless' FDA Certificates Are Used To Tout Dubious Face Masks
4 years, 5 months ago

'Meaningless' FDA Certificates Are Used To Tout Dubious Face Masks

NPR  

'Meaningless' FDA Certificates Are Used To Tout Dubious Face Masks Enlarge this image toggle caption Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty Images Aleksandr Zubkov/Getty Images When the order of 100,000 masks arrived at an unnamed factory for use in protecting workers against COVID-19, they were covered in dirt, dust and mysterious stains. NPR found valid registrations for all of these facilities, but none had …

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