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 ...
**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 ...
Compared to surgical masks, N95 respirators aren’t superior when it comes to protecting healthcare workers from contracting acute respiratory infections from patients, according to a new study in CMAJ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recently, I underwent breast cancer surgery at my local hospital. Imagine my surprise when I found several staff members who ...
Brown University Health is making people mask up in its hospitals again — but newly acquired St. Anne’s Hospital in Fall River and Morton Hospital in Taunton are exempt. According to a statement from ...
This article was originally featured on KFF Health News. Nurses, researchers, and workplace safety officers worry new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reduce ...
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 ...
A man receives a COVID-19 test in the eastern suburbs of Sydney in September 2022. [AP Photo/Mark Baker] An administration worker at a large New South Wales (NSW) regional public hospital has ...