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Personal protective equipment (PPE) supply in the U.S. is rapidly diminishing as demand in the health care sector amid coronavirus increases. To ensure medical professionals are receiving required ...

Now that experts suggest that wearing a mask or face covering is helpful against the coronavirus, folks are scrambling to make their own rather than tap into the supply of surgical face masks needed ...

With social distancing orders in full effect throughout most of the United States, families are going the extra mile to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. Following the CDC's national ...

Approximately one in five people globally are in quarantine. It’s necessary if we want to avoid overwhelming our hospitals and medical staff during the coronavirus pandemic. In the U.S., however, our ...

Now that the CDC is recommending we all wear cloth face masks in public, you may be wondering how exactly you can use what you have on hand to get out on public and keep others safe. As the ...

When Kirsten Hawkins heard that hospitals were running short on personal protective equipment (PPE), the local fashion designer linked up with fellow Atlantans Kayla Hittig and Gina Livingston on ...

A quilt shop in East Texas is doing its part to help out during the coronavirus. Stitchin' Heaven in Quitman met with medical professionals and with their guidance, created a video tutorial that ...

All of a sudden, the one thing that we all need -- and we didn't know to stock up on -- is cloth face masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Friday that Americans wear masks ...

Here’s how to do it. By Farhad Manjoo Opinion Columnist It shouldn’t have come to this, but here we are. The world is running out of face masks for health care workers, which is one reason American ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Many healthcare workers are still desperate to get adequate masks to protect themselves. That's why "Operation We Can Sew It" hopes people will learn how to sew masks they can use for ...