BOSTON (CBS) -- Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital have designed a silicone mask that is as effective as an N95 mask, but easier to sterilize so ...

As new coronavirus cases spike in the U.S.—Florida alone now has 12 times more cases than the entire country of Australia—healthcare workers still face a shortage of N95 masks. Many hospitals are now ...

image: Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have designed a new silicone rubber face mask that they believe could stop viral particles as effectively as N95 masks. Unlike N95 masks, the ...

Nurses and doctors have gone to creative extremes to reuse the same masks, gloves and scrubs they need to treat contagious coronavirus patients. But if a prototype mask created by researchers proves ...

With 80 percent face mask compliance, we could beat the coronavirus in no time flat — but now that mask wearing has become so politicized, it’s probably impossible to reach that number. Still, making ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers have created a reusable face mask, which they claim to have the same efficacy as the N95 masks. The MIT engineers worked with Brigham and Women's ...

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