Trying to keep up with changing masking guidance from public health officials has been challenging to say the least. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first said that masks weren’t ...

While the mask mandates born during the Covid-19 crisis have slowly disappeared for the most part, proper N95 mask can help protect you from both the spread of germs and disease as well as airborne ...

Out of all the different face masks you can choose from, N95 respirators are the most protective, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). They’re designed to filter out at ...

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You're watching the Omicron variant race around the world and think it might be time to upgrade your mask to a gold-standard N95 or K-N95 model. A quick search on ...

The U.S. government is giving out 400 million free 'N95' masks in a huge deployment to combat the spread of COVID-19. But why is the N95 type so important? N95 masks are defined as respirators, which ...

With COVID-19 cases once again on the rise amid the spread of the more contagious and more dangerous delta variant, we’re circling back around to remind our readers that it might be time to either ...

The Delta variant has become the dominant strain of COVID, now accounting for more than 93% of all cases in the U.S., mostly among the unvaccinated population. The Centers for Disease Control and ...