During a walk around his block in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Mark Benfield was struck by how many discarded gloves and masks he saw on his short route. The Louisiana State University professor, who ...

PPE usually covers your eyes, nose, mouth since it's easiest for germs to enter your body that way — and through your hands touching those areas. Masks, gowns and gloves are some of the most ...

The survey said the cities need 28.5 million face masks, 24.4 million other types of personal protective equipment and 139,000 ventilators. The respondents did not include mayors of some of the ...

Homemade masks, reusing masks and ... goggles and other personal protective equipment, or PPE. An editorial published March 20 in JAMA requested creative ideas.

Homemade masks that used flimsier fabric tested as low as 1 percent filtration, Dr. Segal said. The best-performing designs were a mask constructed of two layers of high-quality, ...

Launched in June 2020 in response to requests for PPE supplies from the customers of a sister company, Banyan has four machines that each produce 90 masks per minute.

Some animals have commandeered discarded PPE for their own uses. COVID-19 litter has become so pervasive that birds have been observed using face masks and gloves as building materials for their ...

Experts say the U.S. government has unintentionally encouraged a dependency on imported masks by failing to promote elastomeric respirators, a reusable mask that is domestically produced. By ...