Minnesota-based 3M still ships millions of respirators, though health care is not the major market it briefly was.

Five years after Donald Trump declared a national COVID emergency, here's what the research says about face masks.

but do not just wear a cloth mask alone.” In crowded places, Dr. Wen suggests a KN95 or N95 mask. The differences in protection are shocking. A December 2021 study published in the journal ...

“N95 masks remain the option with the best protection ... and specifies that they’re better than cloth products. Here's a cheat sheet of the different levels of protection offered by different ...

Out of all the different face masks you can choose from, one type is the most protective, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: N95 respirators. They’re designed to filter ...

A cloth mask is much less protective than surgical or N95 masks, but it might be 'better than nothing' to stop droplets getting through, research has found Research on masks' effectiveness against ...

that doesn't include cloth masks or N95 respirators. Do masks actually help protect the person who wears them? Yes. Masks can help block infectious particles in the air and reduce the amount you ...

Masks are a big category: There are cloth masks, surgical masks, N95 respirators that block 95 percent of small particles. People use them both as source control—that is, to reduce the spread of ...