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Federal officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated mask guidance this week to suggest Americans choose N95 or KN95s if possible, as respirators better stem the spread of ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling for health care facilities to transition away from instructing staff to reuse N95 masks since the U.S. and its hospitals have built up a stockpile ...

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After discovering a room full of N95 masks hanging on clotheslines, some employees claim Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based Vassar Brothers Medical Center is recycling masks for staff, Mid-Hudson News reports.

The FDA is urging hospitals to transition from crisis capacity measures such as decontaminating and reusing N95 masks, citing an increased domestic supply. The FDA and CDC said April 9 they believe ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Researchers from Duke Health are spreading the word about a new way to decontaminate N-95 masks, key ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested health care workers sanitize and reuse masks when treating coronavirus patients, rather than "throwing away" masks that are in short supply. "I have to ...

Nurses at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie are now alleging the hospital is reusing N-95 masks, after PPE was found strung up on a clothes line in a storage closet over the weekend. ICU ...

Editor’s Note (4/19/22): This article is being republished in light of a recent ruling by Florida federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle striking down a federal mask mandate on airplanes and public ...