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Three cities that have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic are receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of personal protective equipment, thanks to Woburn-based firm Mascon Medical. Revere and Chelsea are getting a boost to their coronavirus response efforts with a donation of $400,000 worth of masks, gowns, face shields, electro-static sprayers and other PPE. Both cities have…

A Massachusetts medical company is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of personal protective equipment to two cities hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

Revere and Chelsea are being gifted $400,000 worth of masks, gowns, face shields, electro-static sprayers and other personal protective equipment from Woburn-based supply chain Mascon Medical, which has been working with local bio-medical companies and governments to deliver the products needed to combat the coronavirus.

A study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that 8% of nursing homes nationwide were at risk due to shortages of at least one type of Personal Protective Equipment, including masks, gowns and hand sanitizer. For a week in August, one in 10 nursing homes in Massachusetts had less than a week supply of PPE or none at all.

From the very moment the pandemic reached America’s shores, the country was unprepared

The largest cargo flight in Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT) history landed Saturday with hundreds of thousands of protective gowns to be shipped to the areas of greatest need both in New Hampshire and Veterans Affairs medical facilities across the country amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu and a handful of other officials, including Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen,…

Republican Gov. Chris Sununu and a handful of other officials, including Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, greeted a FedEx charter flight aboard a Boeing 777 carrying 450,000 gowns.

The New York Times talks to the innovators and entrepreneurs who have jumped in to help make personal protective equipment for first responders.

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

The Rutledge family of Simsbury, Conn., decided to make a sign for their front yard to thank essential workers during the pandemic – then the requests from neighbors started rolling in. The family of five has now made almost 1,000 signs and raised $11,000 in donations to help make PPE for nearby medical facilities.

As restaurants around the world look for ways to safely reopen, some restaurants in France are experimenting with plastic domes to help keep restaurant workers and diners healthy.

Before coronavirus numbers in the U.S. significantly spiked, Dina Akel was already keenly aware of the virus’s dangers. Her husband’s family is from China, where the virus originated.  “We were kind of scared that it was going to happen here. And low and behold things did occur,” Akel said.  When it became clear that the US had a shortage...

A nurse found out Wednesday what happens when you contradict President Donald Trump on how well coronavirus response efforts are going while standing near him in the Oval Office.

Officials in Russia say two doctors have died and another was seriously hurt in falls from hospital windows after they reportedly came under pressure over working conditions in the coronavirus pandemic

More than 110,000 pounds of personal protective equipment has landed in New Hampshire Thursday afternoon, thanks in part to inventor Dean Kamen. A FedEx cargo plane carrying about 4.5 million masks that will be sent both to hospitals in the Granite State and Veterans Affairs hospitals across the country has landed at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. The plane took off from…

With the coronavirus pandemic escalating, Pratheek Kuimanda, a junior at Andover High School, was searching for a way to help those in need. So when he learned a school administrator in town was working on a project to make face shields using a 3D printer, he jumped into action. Pratheek organized a group of five of his friends and started…

A group of Andover High School students are producing about 20 face shields per day using 3D printers and donating them to local health care workers.

Governor Charlie Baker toured the East Longmeadow manufacturing plant Saturday to get a firsthand look at the toymaker churning out critical supplies to donate to frontline workers across New England.

More than half-a-million medical-grade face masks were delivered to New Hampshire on Saturday, the governor’s office said, the second such delivery in as many weekends. Gov. Chris Sununu was on hand to greet the Boeing 737-700 filled with approximately 540,000 masks, according to a statement from his office. The personal protective equipment shipment is part of the same deal that…

The Granite State purchased the PPE shipment and will be distributing the supplies to the places across the state that need it the most, according to the governor’s office.