Experts Call For N95s To Replace Surgical Masks As Flu, Covid Viruses Spread

World Health Network experts urge WHO to make N95, KN95, or FFP2 respirators the standard for protection for healthcare ...
Fierce Healthcare

Study comparing surgical masks to N95s stirs controversy

Surgical masks can ward off COVID-19 just as well as N95s for healthcare workers exposed to patients infected with that virus, a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests. To report that this ...
News Medical

Mask use in children shown to cause no respiratory distress

In a recent study published in Environmental Research, researchers investigated whether surgical and N95 face masks cause respiratory distress in children. In the present study, researchers assessed ...
Medical Xpress

Medical Device: surgical mask

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Grenoble Alpes—Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) has shown that from the age of two, children ...