“We need to be wearing at least a three-ply surgical mask,” Leana Wen, MD, an emergency physician and professor of health ...

Cloth face masks, often cobbled together as a makeshift alternative when stocks of surgical masks run low, and sometimes worn as a fashion statement, offer no practical protection against the ...

Let’s talk about why you should be wearing N95 masks instead of cloth or surgical masks if you want to protect yourself from harmful particulates released by the Southern California wildfires.

A cloth mask is much less protective than surgical or N95 masks ... and correctly — and they were most protective in combination with proper hand washing. "[Using respiratory coverings] in ...

In fact, the best cloth masks actually achieved better filtration (79 per cent) than surgical masks (62 to 65 per cent), according to a peer-reviewed study at America’s Wake Forest Institute of ...

In that case, Jubanyik recommends you consider double masking with a surgical mask and a cloth mask. “Surgical masks (disposable) should fit well; using the bendable nosepiece and tying a knot ...

a surgical mask and a cotton cloth mask. When the infected mannequin wore a surgical or cotton mask, and the healthy mannequin did not wear a mask, it reduced the amount of the virus that the ...

One internal memo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that even simple cloth masks could help ... currently a shortage of N95 and surgical masks in the US, with healthcare ...

A simple trick can reveal whether your face mask offers sufficient protection: Try blowing out a candle while wearing it. A good mask should prevent you from extinguishing the flame. The rule isn ...