Picking out your New Year’s Eve outfit? Consider upgrading your face mask while you’re at it. Public health experts are warning that the single-layer cloth masks that have become popular during the ...

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, science has learned quite a lot about the novel coronavirus -- including how to stop its spread. You know the drill: social distancing, frequent hand-washing and, ...

Omicron, which World Health Organization officials warned is spreading faster than any COVID-19 variant, is again calling into question the effectiveness of reusable cloth masks. “The minimum would be ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — If you're going to wear a mask, you want to make sure it really protects you. Health experts say one of these masks is far better at protecting you than the other. To show you why ...

Catherine Clase is a member of the Cloth Mask Knowledge Exchange, a research and knowledge translation group which includes industry stakeholders. Industry stakeholders contribute to the Cloth Mask ...

The droplet impacting on the mask surface is recorded at 20,000 frames per second. These time sequence images of droplet impingement on a single-, double-, and triple-layer masks show the total number ...

• Three-layer masks have been found to keep you most protected from COVID-19 viral particles. • Recent research found that only about 30% of large respiratory droplets are blocked by single-layer ...

Research shows that high-momentum, large-sized surrogate cough droplets can penetrate single- or double-layer surgical masks to a significant extent 1. The penetrated droplets can then break into ...

Well over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, science has learned quite a lot about the novel coronavirus — including how to stop its spread. You know the drill: social distancing, frequent ...