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 ...

To curb the transmission of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently begun to recommend using a cloth face covering when you’re out in public. But why exactly is ...

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 ...

In the last week, as I’ve worked around the clock with a cross-disciplinary group of designers and academics to develop an effective crowd-sourced DIY face mask, a lot of my smart friends (including a ...