BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Think of cloth masks like a pair of underwear. “It’s sort of like the clothes you wear, or the underwear you wear. You want to launder that daily,” said Connie DeLeo, the ...

Masks and other face coverings have become a fact of life for most Americans. As stay-at-home orders are lifted, wearing masks continues to be an important part of protecting against the further ...

This is the cloth mask cleaning recipe recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Either throw the mask in your washing machine using the warm water setting and dry it on high heat ...

Brett Mitchell is affiliated with the University of Newcastle, Editor-in-Chief (Infection, Disease and Health), member of the Infection Control Expert Advisory Group (Advising AHHPC), member of the ...

Like many of us living in this pandemic, I consider my cloth mask a staple item, as essential to have on me when I head out the door as my phone, keys, and wallet. Although masks can help protect us ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — By now, a lot of us are in the habit of wearing face coverings when we’re out and about. The CDC recommends people wear masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. If you ...

Along with social distancing, wearing a face mask is one of the best tools we have for fighting COVID-19. Because of the low supply of medical-grade masks, many people have turned to cloth masks that ...

It’s clear that wearing face masks during the pandemic could save countless lives and that caring for reusable masks properly is essential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends ...

In early April, after experts recommended masks for all of us to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, I bought cloth masks from a seamstress friend who was sewing them like crazy from her home in ...

Whether or not you agree with a mandate to wear a mask, many of us will do so during our daily business. I am a professor of nursing at Purdue University, where a colleague and I teach a class ...