PIEDMONT, Calif. - Fabric is in high demand now that health officials are urging the public to wear face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With masks in short supply, more and more people are ...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) supply in the U.S. is rapidly diminishing as demand in the health care sector amid coronavirus increases. To ensure medical professionals are receiving required ...

The coronavirus pandemic is currently ravaging not only human bodies around the globe, but our healthcare systems. Doctors, nurses, paramedics, and other hospital staff are overwhelmed with new ...

Wearing a face mask is one way we can all help slow the spread of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Wearing a face mask in public or community settings, especially in situations where you may ...

Hospitals are asking for donations of N-95 respirators (the CDC-recommended masks for healthcare professionals working with infectious patients). But these efforts aren't enough to keep up with the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — There are a lot of do it yourself videos online for making face masks, but the question is: will a homemade mask protect you as much as a surgical mask could? A video created by JOANN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Good Housekeeping Institute Textiles Lab reached out to medical professionals, sewing experts, and fabric suppliers to pull ...

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As cases of novel coronavirus continue to rise across the U.S., public health are finally beginning to urge people to wear fabric face masks in public when leaving the house for essential activities.

It was the last thing Sabrina Roffman of New City, New York, wanted to hear: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, local medical facilities were running out of protective face masks. Her husband, ...