As more Americans wear personal protective equipment like gloves and masks in their daily life, they’re also throwing it on the streets, in parking lots and parks. CNN values your feedback 1.

Exports of masks and PPE from the U.S. to China surged in January and February, when the coronavirus was wreaking havoc in the country where it began.

Homemade masks are not considered PPE, since their effectiveness is unknown. However, hospitals are accepting them. Community Health Network has provided guidance on how to make masks, including ...

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...