N95 Masks

As COVID-19 at-home rapid tests continue to be delivered to homes, now N95 masks are also being distributed by the federal government. This time, you’ll have to leave the house to find them.

NBC 7’s Dana Williams found a pharmacy in San Diego County that started to receive shipments of free N95 masks.

How often you can safely wear an N95 or KN95 mask will depend on how it’s used. Here’s what you need to know and how to get a free one now.

Pharmacies and health centers around the country have begun distributing the first of the 400 million N95 masks the White House is sending out to combat the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19.

The surge of the omicron variant of COVID-19 created more interest in filtered masks – so here’s what you need to know.

The Biden administration will make 400 million N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile available for free to Americans starting next week

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance, saying that N95 masks offer the highest protection.

The CDC on Friday updated its guidance on masks for the general public, now saying that people “may choose” to wear N95 and KN95 masks because they offer the best protection against COVID-19.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Department of Homeland Security has seized over 11 million counterfeit N95 masks in its ongoing fight to protect frontline health care workers

NBC 7’s Greg Bledsoe shares what you need to know in San Diego County on the morning of July 23, 2020.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of N95 respirator masks presented a dire situation for the healthcare and frontline workers who needed them most. Essential workers who relied on N95 masks had no choice but to wear what were meant to be disposable N95 masks for weeks at a time. Some started disinfecting the masks to be...

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again

A Georgia man has been charged in federal court with trying to swindle a foreign government out of $317 million in exchange for a huge shipment of masks to protect against the coronavirus that didn’t really exist.

U.S. Immunologist Dr. Rick Bright discusses his attempts to get the Trump administration to secure more N95.

Thanks to thousands of local volunteers, about 300,000 pieces of once-defective face masks can be used to protect medical staff at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19.

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…

Nurses detail how their hospitals are rationing some protective supplies. NBC 7’s Allison Ash has more.

Nurses protesting outside Sharp Mary Birch Hospital this weekend — the second protest by San Diego health care workers in days — held signs that said, “Help us help you.”

About 100 San Diego volunteers have answered the call to repair hundreds of thousands of defective protective masks that would otherwise be unusable by local health care workers on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19.

The billions of tax dollars headed for hospitals and states as part of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus response bill won’t solve the critical shortage of protective gowns, gloves and masks