Experts who advise the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its hospital infection control guidelines have voted to recommend that health care providers wear masks during routine care for ...

Standard surgical masks don’t fully seal around a person’s face, allowing for more participle exposure. But simply adding two rubber bands may improve the seal and offer N95 respirator-level ...

Surgical masks can ward off COVID-19 just as well as N95s for healthcare workers exposed to patients infected with that virus, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests. To report that this ...

Domestic suppliers of N95 and surgical masks are crumbling as hospitals return to buying cheaper products abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 4. About 70% of the startup mask companies ...

As respiratory illness season takes hold and cold and flu activity increases in the community, Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare (MAHC) has reinstated mandatory masking requirements in the hospitals.

During the first 10 months of Omicron activity the real-world benefit of mask-wearing in isolation was likely to be, at best, modest, said UK researchers. Mask wearing has been part of a package of ...

**Note: the release below is a special early release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023, Copenhagen, 15-18 April). Please credit the congress if you ...

A Derbyshire hospital has reintroduced mandatory face masks following the rise of flu cases in the premises. Chesterfield Royal Hospital issued a statement on Tuesday (November 4) asking colleagues, ...

One woman spent 12 hours sewing masks for hospital workers. A California woman spent 12 hours straight sewing masks for those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic -- and she's not stopping ...

This draft recommendation does not specify what kind of mask to wear — either looser-fitting surgical masks or more fitted and tightly woven N95 respirators. The decision frustrated some advocates for ...