Now that experts suggest that wearing a mask or face covering is helpful against the coronavirus, folks are scrambling to make their own rather than tap into the supply of surgical face masks needed ...

Up to this point in the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in the United States have advised healthy civilians against wearing face masks, despite a growing grassroots masks-for-all ...

Now that President Trump says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the use of non-medical face masks as a voluntary precaution against the novel coronavirus, you might be ...

The thicker the fabric, the better the face mask. Though Dr. Shan Soe-Lin, PhD, has a collection of fabric face masks that she keeps in rotation, she has also used a large, thick shawl in a pinch. If ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. In the midst of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals and clinics are running out of ...