Masks

More than two months into the coronavirus pandemic, wearing a cloth mask has become a way of life for many Americans. Public health experts recommend them to prevent the wearer from spreading any illness they may be carrying unknowingly, but many mask vendors are touting methods that offer extra protection. Filters, which can minimize the virus particles that pass through the mask, have become...

A tavern in Elgin, Texas, has banned its customers from wearing face masks, despite the CDC recommending one to help slow the spread of COVID-19. A statement posted outside the Liberty Tree Tavern reads, “Due to our concern for our citizens, if they feel the need to wear a mask, then they should probably stay home until it’s safe.”

Your favorite restaurant might have opened up Thursday for dine-in service, but it’s with restrictions, of course. San Diego County has moved further into phase 2 of California’s reopening plan, but county officials want to remind everyone to wear masks and adhere to social distancing. In Hillcrest, Crest Café manager Enrique Medina opened up and served his first customer in...

It sounded like a great deal: The White House coronavirus task force would buy a defense company’s new cleaning machines to allow critical protective masks to be reused up to 20 times. And at $60 million for 60 machines on April 3, the price was right. But over just a few days, the potential cost to taxpayers exploded to $413 million, according…

A new cultural issue has arisen amid the coronavirus crisis and it’s being debated from coast to coast: mask shaming.

A Toyota factory in France has pivoted production efforts and is now making 6,000 washable masks a day.

President Donald Trump toured the Honeywell facility in Phoenix, Arizona, making N-95 masks for the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mask requirements aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 are facing a violent backlash in some communities that tried to enforce them in public.

Michigan authorities are searching for two men accused of murdering a Flint security guard over a mask warning. Calvin Munerlyn, a security guard, was shot and killed by the two men after getting into an argument with a woman, telling her her daughter needs to wear a mask to enter the store. All three are charged with murder.

As more and more Americans don face masks in public, parents are facing a dilemma: How young is too young to mask up kids?

Vice President Mike Pence has donned a face covering while touring a General Motors/Ventec ventilator production facility in Indiana

A new facility will soon begin cleaning used N95 masks for Colorado healthcare workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, using a “concentrated, vapor phase hydrogen peroxide.” According to Colorado officials, a single respirator can be “reused up to 20 times without degradation.”

Unless you work in the medical field, odds are you’ve never had much of a reason to wear a face mask before. But in the era of coronavirus, protective face masks are recommended and have become the new normal. TODAY enlisted the help of medical experts to break down some of the most common mistakes many of us make while wearing face masks. From...

During the health emergency it might be tough to tell the good guys apart from the bad guys when almost everyone is wearing a mask.

NBC 7’s Jackie Crea spoke to employees who say facial covering expectations gave two thieves more confidence to steal beer.

The Orange County Board of Supervisors Tuesday narrowly approved a mandate requiring face coverings for employees in many types of retail businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The face coverings will be required, beginning Friday, for employees who interact with the public in grocery, pharmacy and convenience stores, as well as gas stations, restaurants, and other locations where food is prepared….

In a sign of the times, the U.S. House of Representatives held a “pro forma” session Tuesday that lasted about three minutes. Some on the floor wore face masks and gloves.

A major California labor union that claimed to have discovered a stockpile of 39 million masks for health care workers fighting the coronavirus was duped in an elaborate scam uncovered by FBI investigators, according to a newspaper report Sunday. Investigators stumbled onto the scheme while looking into whether they could intercept the masks for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under…

Homemade face masks can help stop the spread of coronavirus, according to the recent advisement from U.S. Surgeon General Jerome James. With more than 12,000 deaths reported nationwide, officials are working to flatten the curve to stop the spread of COVID-19 and experts believe face masks may help. Although do-it-yourself masks aren’t used by medical professionals, as N95 medical...

A Bay Area Paralympian, unable to train because of the coronavirus pandemic, has taken up a new challenge: making face masks