n95 masks

The federal government is shipping 400 million N95 masks to pharmacies and community centers across the country to distribute.

How often you can safely wear an N95 or KN95 mask will depend on how it’s used. Here’s what you need to know and how to get a free one now.

Pharmacies and health centers around the country have begun distributing the first of the 400 million N95 masks the White House is sending out to combat the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19.

The surge of the omicron variant of COVID-19 created more interest in filtered masks – so here’s what you need to know.

The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to Americans starting next week, now that federal officials are emphasizing their better protection against the omicron variant of COVID-19 over cloth face coverings.

The Biden administration will make 400 million N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile available for free to Americans starting next week

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance, saying that N95 masks offer the highest protection.

The CDC on Friday updated its guidance on masks for the general public, now saying that people “may choose” to wear N95 and KN95 masks because they offer the best protection against COVID-19.

Omicron is spreading throughout our communities and experts recommend tossing the cloth masks and upgrading to something more effective

A sharp-eyed worker at a Massachusetts hospital is being credited with spotting a shipment of tens of thousands of counterfeit N95 surgical masks that could have potentially put the health of frontline medical workers at risk, officials said Monday.

Maine is one of the states impacted by a recall of potential knockoff N95 masks. Last Friday, Maine officials announced that the state received more than 2 million potentially counterfeit respirators marked as 3M products after it was determined shipments of the face coverings matched lot numbers in a federal warning. “Since November, the state has distributed approximately 161,000 N95…

Knockoff N95 masks are being recalled, and Maine is one of the states being impacted.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Department of Homeland Security has seized over 11 million counterfeit N95 masks in its ongoing fight to protect frontline health care workers

Just over 20,000 counterfeit N95 masks being shipped into the United States were seized at a port facility in Boston this month, according to Customs and Border Protection officials. The masks had a value of $163,200 but were spotted by specialists in clothes, shoes and textiles, according to a CBP statement released Thursday. “Counterfeit personal protective equipment puts frontline workers…

A new, reusable, silicone alternative to N95 masks developed by MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is getting attention around the world.

A new, reusable, silicone alternative to N95 masks developed by MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is getting attention around the world.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of N95 respirator masks presented a dire situation for the healthcare and frontline workers who needed them most. Essential workers who relied on N95 masks had no choice but to wear what were meant to be disposable N95 masks for weeks at a time. Some started disinfecting the masks to be...

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again

A Georgia man has been charged in federal court with trying to swindle a foreign government out of $317 million in exchange for a huge shipment of masks to protect against the coronavirus that didn’t really exist.

U.S. Immunologist Dr. Rick Bright discusses his attempts to get the Trump administration to secure more N95.