To curb the transmission of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently begun to recommend using a cloth face covering when you’re out in public. But why exactly is ...

The women of the Refugee Artisan Initiative have been making masks to donate to health care workers and teaching others to do the same. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend wearing ...

Still, if you want to make a mask, here are simple, step-by-step instructions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to do just that, whether or not you know how to sew. Not sure ...

Guidance on whether to wear a face mask varies locally. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that all Americans, healthy and sick, wear basic cloth masks in public — a ...

UP CHE released instructions for creating 3 types of cloth face masks, a disposable filter, and a plastic face shield. Image from UP CHE. The University of the Philippines College of Home Economics ...

SINGAPORE - I received many enquiries from readers after I wrote about making masks at home with my mother Sheila Khoo, 68, a sewing enthusiast who makes cloth masks to give to friends. She uses ...

Watch Rachel Mix with the Department of Medical Informatics at the OU-TU School of Community Medicine walk through the steps of creating a simple face mask. She details what materials to use and how ...

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Alanna Okun was a senior editor at Vox, primarily working on Even Better. Before Vox, she was a senior editor at Racked and BuzzFeed. As German Lopez writes for Vox, “While the evidence is limited, ...

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