Late last year, Laura Wing-Kamoosi visited her 79-year-old father at the hospital in northern Michigan. To her surprise, a worker asked her to remove her N95 and replace it with a surgical mask.

President Donald Trump on Saturday wore a mask in a public setting for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic struck the nation in earnest in March. Trump wore a black mask during a visit ...

Also, the hospital didn’t want patients to feel scared by seeing everyone in a mask, Moya recalled the director saying. Moya is known for her calm demeanor, according to a nurse who works with her.

Chai, P.R., et al. (2022) The acceptance of a computer vision facilitated protocol to measure adherence to face masks: a single site, observational cohort study among hospital staff. BMJ Open. doi ...

President Trump doubled down on his suggestion that face masks at a New York hospital were being stolen, and that was the reasoning for needing 300,000 units to fight COVID-19. The president ...

Workers at a VA hospital in New Mexico have been told not to wear face masks in certain cases, even though earlier CDC guidance said masks can protect against spread of the coronavirus.

Researchers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston developed a mask that can be reused by disinfecting the mask after use and have the filters changed to help prevent contracting or ...

A Seattle-area hospital system is asking volunteers to sew fabric masks to help make up for a shortage of protective gear during the novel coronavirus crisis. Providence St. Joseph Health – like ...

Brethren Ministries in Pennsylvania donated 50,000 N95 masks to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, but the masks were found to have defective straps, making it impossible for health care workers to ...

But when you go to 10,000 masks to 300,000 masks... there's something going on," Trump said during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House. He made the same claim on Sunday, too. "How ...