As governments around the world struggle to build up a supply of N95 masks for healthcare workers—navigating price gouging, counterfeit respirators, scammers, and fierce competition from other ...

Researchers have developed a more efficient membrane filter that can be attached to a regular N95 mask and replaced when needed. The filter has a smaller pore size than normal N95 masks, potentially ...

As new coronavirus cases spike in the U.S.—Florida alone now has 12 times more cases than the entire country of Australia—healthcare workers still face a shortage of N95 masks. Many hospitals are now ...

WOODBRIDGE, Conn.—A subsidiary of injection molder Mack Molding Inc. teamed with a Vermont medical center to adapt a snorkel normally used by divers into protective gear for medical staff. Staff at ...

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Nurses and doctors have gone to creative extremes to reuse the same masks, gloves and scrubs they need to treat contagious coronavirus patients. But if a prototype mask created by researchers proves ...