When the coronavirus pandemic escalated in late March, frontline facilities like hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and grocery stores across the nation began to experience shortages of personal ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Neighbors around Birmingham are coming together to try and sew masks for healthcare workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospitals and medical facilities are dealing with ...

Let me tell you from the get-go that the creator of one of the nation’s largest and most diverse grass-roots mask-making efforts did not intend to start a movement, to mobilize the masses, to spend ...

In the last week, as I’ve worked around the clock with a cross-disciplinary group of designers and academics to develop an effective crowd-sourced DIY face mask, a lot of my smart friends (including a ...

(KUTV) — Thousands of volunteers around the country have made more than 250,000 cloth masks for the nonprofit Sewing for Lives. "Just supporters everywhere," said Megan Jansen, founder. "They just ...

Transportation Security Administration officers are following CDC advice and staying home when they are not working at the airport, and a few of them are making good use of their time by keeping busy ...

An Amherst pediatrician, concerned over the critical shortage of surgical masks now worn by many people to help slow the spread of COVID-19, has taken matters into her own hands. Dr. Martina Puzanov ...

Guidance on whether to wear a face mask to limit the spread of coronavirus has been evolving. The Taoiseach says the Government is now advising people to wear face coverings on public transport and in ...

Owning a mask has become a necessity as businesses and schools require that people wear face coverings to combat the spread of COVID-19. A Bonita Springs sewing group is making masks and giving them ...

The phone calls from that night in March linger in my thoughts. At 9:30 p.m., a woman wept in pain, saying her knee was swollen and excruciating. In the background, I heard the patient’s wife trying ...