Registered nurses performs a N95 mask fit test and wear a qualitative test hood for a scent test, at the new ICU wing at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center. (Photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times via ...

Press release from Mercy Urgent Care: Mercy Urgent Care is now offering fit-testing for N95 and other respirator masks in an effort to help medical professionals, essential employees and at-risk ...

This is itself an issue, but our research also discovered another worrying thing: People aren’t very good at assessing whether their mask fits. Frequently, they use a self-assessment method to check ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and during a summer of bushfires, P2 or N95 masks have been held up as the best protection against contaminants in the air, but their effectiveness can be severely ...

Though mask restrictions are easing across the country (and around the world), officials say you shouldn’t be taking off your masks just yet, especially if you’re in crowded places or starting to ...

With the Omicron variant continuing to surge into January, you may have noticed more people opting to wear an N95 mask — but those highly protective masks, usually reserved for medical settings, can ...

Colin Furness is an infection control epidemiologist, and at the University of Toronto, an assistant professor in the faculty of information and assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public ...

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 ...

To the editor: N95 respirator masks are just a dollar’s worth of paper unless you’re fit-tested. (“Suppliers cash in as California taxpayers hit with wildly inflated prices for masks,” April 23) ...