Purell and toilet paper aren't the only items flying off store shelves as coronavirus spreads. Masks have also become a hot commodity, so much so that hospitals across the country have begun sending ...
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 ...
Haylee Rupright, 26, wondered if she was pushing it too hard. In one night, she and her 20-year-old sister Emilee had made 16 face masks out of Haylee's extra quilting fabric, using the sewing ...
The time has come to start covering up. On April 3, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a recommendation that individuals should wear fabric masks in public spaces where social distancing can ...
The Centers for Disease Control has recommended the use of face masks in public. But with masks on short supply nationwide, however, you may have to get crafty to comply. DIY face masks and ...
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, ...
CHICAGO -- Bill Purdue waterproofs basements for a living, but he has spent the past few days in his buddy's Washington, Indiana, auto trim and upholstery shop cutting rectangles of cotton fabric that ...
WEST LAFAYETTE – As news spread that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might reconsider its recommendation on wearing masks – that do-it-yourself, cloth models churning out of pop-up ...