Nurses at Santa Monica hospitals say they are being asked to reuse protective masks as they treat a swell of coronavirus patients and are demanding that their employers and the government provide an ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Reusing single-use surgical masks for up to a week had no major impact on skin or upper respiratory tract ...

SAN DIEGO — Hospital nurses working with COVID-19 patients are scared and upset over a new policy that OKs the use of less-protective surgical masks. The policy change comes from the CDC and the World ...

An internal Federal Emergency Management Agency document shows that the U.S. government’s supply of surgical gowns and masks has not meaningfully increased, as reported by Roll Call. “The demand for ...

The shortage of personal protective equipment — specifically those N95 masks — continues to be a struggle for many healthcare workers. But an emergency medicine doctor in Orange County, California, ...

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.

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 ...