As more and more health experts urge Americans to swap their cloth masks for either a N95 or KN95 mask, others are explaining how often to reuse the single mask. Omicron is far more transmissible than ...

The following is from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). As our numbers of COVID-19 continue to increase across the area, state and nation and mask mandates continue, caring for your mask is ...

NEW YORK -- How many times can I reuse my N95 mask? It depends, but you should be able to use N95s and KN95s a few times. The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says health care workers ...

IOWA (WHO) – While any mask is better than no mask when it comes to slowing the spread of airborne illnesses, the CDC recommends N95 face masks for maximum protection. The masks may look like ...

SAN DIEGO — Public health officials are urging Americans to get vaccinated and boosted. They are also recommending people upgrade from a cloth mask to a higher quality medical grade mask, but what is ...

MaryKay Schladweiler is on a mission. "I came in to look at snow shovels and masks," she says. "Somebody told me this hardware store has masks." She’s among those scouring the shelves of a south ...

Some experts say members of the general public can reuse N95 or KN95 face masks, which are recommended as omicron spreads, as long as they take certain steps. They’ll eventually need to be thrown out.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. IOWA (WHO) – While any mask is better than ...

New River Health District Population Community Coordinator Pamela Ray puts it into perspective and says it depends on your daily activities. "If you're wearing them all day long, you know, at your ...