Tag: Individual Protection

Researchers have tested a variety of popular hacks for improving the fit of KN95 and surgical masks, and found that ...

A new study from the University of Southampton has demonstrated a new method to safely clean and reuse facemask respirators ...

The versatile MOF-based fibrous composite designed here has the potential to serve as protective cloth against both biological and chemical ...

Personalized Protective Biosystem (PPB) program aims to develop technology that reduces the need for burdensome protective equipment while increasing individual ...

Medicom to open new plant to produce critical meltblown polypropylene filter raw material for masks. The company will also establish ...

A new study has found that arming frontline workers with a 'care bundle' of baby wipes, Aquaphor and silicone tape ...

Researchers have come up with a better way to test which fabrics work best for masks that are meant to ...

A new study of airflow patterns inside a car's passenger cabin offers some suggestions for potentially reducing the risk of ...

Around the world, virologists in labs are constantly handling samples of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as part of ...

While researchers conduct clinical trials on use of convalescent blood serum as a therapeutic for COVID-19, there's a very different ...

Laboratory tests of surgical and N95 masks by researchers at the University of California, Davis, show that they do cut ...

For frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) like face visors, googles, and respiratory protective ...

Two forces of nature are colliding in the western United States, and wildland firefighters are caught in the middle. Emerging ...

As the coronavirus crisis deepened in April, Georgia officials circulated documents showing that to get through the next month, the ...

“We need more testing supplies, more testing, and more personal protective equipment for workers on the frontlines of this pandemic.” ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory 711th Human Performance Wing Biodynamics team is playing a vital role in the COVID-19 relief ...

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity at Fort Detrick, Maryland, finalized a ...

In the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, masks were in such short supply they were nearly impossible to find. ...

When MIT announced in March that most research labs on campus would need to ramp down to help prevent the ...

The spread of coronavirus has spurred massive efforts to consistently disinfect everything from office buildings to schools to city buses. ...