When the coronavirus pandemic escalated in late March, frontline facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and grocery stores across the nation began to experience shortages of personal ...

Let me tell you from the get-go that the creator of one of the nation’s largest and most diverse grass-roots mask-making efforts did not intend to start a movement, to mobilize the masses, to spend ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Neighbors around Birmingham are coming together to try and sew masks for healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals and medical facilities are dealing with ...

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 ...

Transportation Security Administration officers are following CDC advice and staying home when they are not working at the airport, and a few of them are making good use of their time by keeping busy ...

Health care providers bracing for a flood of coronavirus cases are already worried about adequate supplies of necessities like face masks. Recently updated advice from the Centers for Disease Control ...

An Amherst pediatrician, concerned over the critical shortage of surgical masks now worn by many people to help slow the spread of COVID-19, has taken matters into her own hands. Dr. Martina Puzanov ...

Owning a mask has become a necessity as businesses and schools require that people wear face coverings to combat the spread of COVID-19. A Bonita Springs sewing group is making masks and giving them ...

The phone calls from that night in March linger in my thoughts. At 9:30 p.m., a woman wept in pain, saying her knee was swollen and excruciating. In the background, I heard the patient’s wife trying ...

A Ferndale family, tired of wearing uncomfortable face masks, came up with a way to help themselves and others feel more at ease while staying safe amid the COVID-19 health crisis. Their company, ...