Press release from Mercy Urgent Care: Mercy Urgent Care is now offering fit-testing for N95 and other respirator masks in an effort to help medical professionals, essential employees and at-risk ...

Registered nurses performs a N95 mask fit test and wear a qualitative test hood for a scent test, at the new ICU wing at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center. (Photo by Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times via ...

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The Delta variant is not only twice as contagious as previous variants, but the rate of hospitalization is about double that of the Alpha variant, according to a study out of Scotland. Now that the ...

What is the difference between N95 masks and KN95 masks? Both masks help protect against COVID-19 and come in versions authorized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food ...

EAST HAVEN, CT — The planned Sunday distribution was scuttled due to forecasted bad weather. But East Haven doesn't give up. This Sunday, the at-home rapid test kits, and N95 masks, will be ...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and during a summer of bushfires, P2 or N95 masks have been held up as the best protection against contaminants in the air, but their effectiveness can be severely ...

The only federal lab that regularly performs N95 testing is in Pennsylvania. “The state of Colorado has now designated CSU as, essentially, an emergency substitute for standard federal testing, to be ...