They are donating 15,000 surgical masks for first responders of Local 2507, which represents EMTs and paramedic members of the FDNY; 15,000 surgical masks to the Uniformed Firefighters Association Local 94 of New York City; 20,000 surgical masks to Mount Sinai South Nassau in New York; and €50,000 to various European organizations to purchase additional masks.
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To put on the surgical masks and the shoe coverings.
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Some of them, wearing surgical masks, lay on their beds.
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N95 masks are tighter fitting and thicker than surgical masks.
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He added that surgical masks or cloth masks are different.
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Please do not hoard n95 masks or even surgical masks.
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There are two common kinds: surgical masks and N95 respirators.
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All frontline employees will also be allowed to wear surgical masks.
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Surgical masks, we know are largely ineffective in preventing virus transmission.
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Merck specified that the masks are surgical masks, not N95 respirators.
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The world is experiencing a shortage of surgical masks and respirators.
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Surgical masks also afford fairly good protection for the worried well.
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Working the store are three women wearing surgical masks and gloves.
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All frontline employees will also be permitted to wear surgical masks.
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The CDC does not recommend Americans wear surgical masks in public.
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Surgical masks are effective against respiratory infections but not airborne infections.
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There are two kinds of masks: surgical masks and N95 respirators.
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China – which manufactures half the world's surgical masks – has already halted exports.
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The list of materials included respirators, surgical masks, gowns, coveralls and gloves.
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The coronavirus is causing shortages worldwide of hand sanitizer and surgical masks.
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People wore surgical masks in Aosta, which is on the Swiss border.
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Just wait until the influencers posing in surgical masks hear about this.
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The CDC has, however, told US healthcare providers to wear surgical masks.
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Only 5 percent said they are working from home, 6 percent have reportedly cancelled travel plans and just 8 percent have purchased preventative surgical masks — despite evidence that surgical masks don't necessarily prevent someone from catching a virus.
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"They wore surgical masks so she wouldn't get their germs," says the source.
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In South Korea, panic is prompting surgical masks to sell out at Costco.
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His team has also started making surgical masks out of recycled hotel linens.
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Across the country, virtual sewing circles have cropped up to make surgical masks.
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California is dipping into its own emergency stockpile of surgical masks and respirators.
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Still, ER doctors tell Wooster they're running low on the surgical masks, too.
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It received close to a quarter of the 864,000 surgical masks it requested.
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Surgical masks are probably not going to keep you safe from COVID-19.
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Surgical masks are looser-fitting than N95 respirators because of this distinct purpose.
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We pay a foreigner entrance fee and we're given surgical masks to wear.
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They wear ordinary, and inadequate, surgical masks while conducting dangerous throat swab tests.
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When I visited a Costco warehouse last week, surgical masks were swiftly selling out.
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Protesters marched in surgical masks, carrying posters likening the city to a gas chamber.
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Most of what it makes are the disposable surgical masks worn by health professionals.
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The CDC has said expired N95 respirators may offer more protection than surgical masks.
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They found that surgical masks decreased the exhalation of large viral droplets 25-fold.
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Instead, the state received surgical masks, which are not considered effective for respiratory protection.
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Surgical masks are looser-fitting and don't protect healthy people from contracting the illness.
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The two most widely used types of masks are N95 respirators and surgical masks.
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Exhausted medical workers with faces lined from hours of wearing goggles and surgical masks.
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Some influencers are sharing photos of themselves donning surgical masks with the hashtag #coronavirus.
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The hospital asked for donations of surgical masks, disposable garments, protective goggles and gloves.
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At the fifth pharmacy she visited, Ms. Zheng finally found surgical masks for $2.
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Many hide behind surgical masks and would never post evidence of themselves taking part.
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"I've considered wearing surgical masks to avoid illness," even though their effectiveness is limited.
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In Qom, Iran, state TV showed voters at polling centres in wearing surgical masks.
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In Qom, Iran, state TV showed voters at polling centers in wearing surgical masks.
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They included thousands of surgical masks, safety goggles and 50 sets of protective suits.
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Surgical masks were a bestseller at a Costco warehouse in Seoul in late January.
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Some hospitals in the US have already reported re-using surgical masks amid shortages.
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Could the surgical masks indicate that they had to go to the hospital or doctor?
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But there were Asian references, too — think Mandarin collars, frog closures, and lacy surgical masks.
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We even had these surgical masks on because the smell of flesh was so strong.
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Others crafted their own surgical masks and have taken to recycling whatever gear they can.
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Newsom also announced California has distributed 24.5 million surgical masks and ordered 100 million more.
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Standard surgical masks are cheaper, while the N95 masks are more on the expensive side.
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They're a step up from the surgical masks that her workers typical wear while working.
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One thing that's causing some concern at Tenoverten is having enough surgical masks on hand.
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Surgical masks, the other common type, can block physical particles, but not necessarily airborne ones.
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Surgical masks, comparatively, are loose-fitting and protects the wearer from large droplets and splashes.
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Mind you, we have surgical masks, they are not N295 respirators ... We don't have N95s.
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Surgical masks are typically used by surgeons to prevent spreading their own germs to patients.
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Razer, the tech company that typically makes laptops and mice, started making surgical masks instead.
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Who were those people in surgical masks harvesting berries from that tree outside our office?
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His parents reached for a box of surgical masks and made everyone put one on.
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Two men are seen selling $22003 surgical masks for $22003 in Vancouver, April 223, 22003.
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Air can also get in around the edges of the masks, particularly flat surgical masks.
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Users also shared images on messaging platform Wechat, showing officials wearing their surgical masks incorrectly.
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There is very little data showing that flat surgical masks protect healthy individuals from disease.
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There is very little data showing that flat surgical masks protect healthy individuals from disease.
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The nurse said she couldn't give the hospital an answer as to whether she had worn the right equipment, because the rules on what masks to wear — either airborne particle-resistant N95 mask, surgical masks, or surgical masks with goggles — had changed every day.
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In the snap, the duo are sporting surgical masks, with Scott adding the cryptic caption, "bdjxjkdn."
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However, dental workers are not required to use respirators and often opt for surgical masks instead.
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Shares in the company, which makes materials used in surgical masks, fell as investors booked profits.
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Given the current shortages, surgical masks and N95 respirators should probably be reserved for medical workers.
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With surgical masks in short supply, he made her one, or at least a crude approximation.
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The T-shirt masks were comfortable, though, and one-third as effective as the surgical masks.
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They donned surgical masks and gloves as Central Elections Committee delegates watched through a nylon partition.
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Most buyers are gravitating toward standard surgical masks, which basically look like blue-hued paper rectangles.
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The sight of people wearing surgical masks as they ride the subway has grown more common.
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People wake up at the crack of dawn to line up at pharmacies for surgical masks.
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In Daegu and elsewhere, citizens flocked to supermarkets and pharmacies to buy surgical masks and supplies.
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But no health organization has recommended that healthy people wear surgical masks and N95 respirator masks.
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The biggest, most inescapable visual reminder of the coronavirus is the constant presence of surgical masks.
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In both Seoul and Ho Chi Minh City, the majority of people are wearing surgical masks.
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Surgical masks can be useful in helping prevent those who are already sick from spreading diseases.
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Coronavirus concerns meant that everyone working at the airport and most flyers were wearing surgical masks.
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Last month, the Taiwanese Coast Guard announced the capture of a fishing boat carrying 70,000 surgical masks.
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The masks are then fitted with pieces of surgical masks which can be swapped out as needed.
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Hospitals are already doing what they can — rationing surgical masks, preparing to stand up temporary facilities, etc.
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Los Angeles Apparel is making surgical masks; it will on Monday begin making hospital gowns as well.
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France does have such a law, but it refers to burqas and ski masks — not surgical masks.
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Yet some US hospitals are still unable to obtain new shipments of surgical masks and N210 respirators.
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One topic she addressed was surgical masks, which have been selling out of pharmacies and grocery stores.
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More than 339,000 N95 masks, which filter out airborne particulates, and 861,000 surgical masks will be delivered.
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Regular surgical masks are selling out, so people are bidding on luxury masks for hundreds of dollars.
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Surgical masks and respirators have been sold out for weeks in the areas where outbreaks are ballooning.
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Other hospitals in the city have followed suit, requesting surgical masks, disposable garments, protective goggles, and gloves.
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Others wear bandanas, surgical masks or even Guy Fawkes masks to conceal their identities at peaceful demonstrations.
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Surgical masks are in shortage and Democrats need work on reportage, but first: a cartoon about parental sexting.
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Surgical masks are now high-tech, but old-fashioned handwashing is still the core technology for preventing contagion.
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The girls put on their surgical masks, dubbing themselves official popaholics for sitting through their dad's pimple procedure.
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Since then, China has undertaken a mobilization of wartime proportions to expand its output of disposable surgical masks.
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He said Thursday that the city needs 2000 million N240 masks, 2000 million surgical masks and 15,000 ventilators.
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Among the needs, the mayor said, are three million N95 masks, 50 million surgical masks and 240,223 ventilators.
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"These are not N95 masks, but they are the equivalent of surgical masks," he said over the phone.
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But for this purpose, you don't need that type; ordinary surgical masks and even homemade masks will do.
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He announced on Monday the dispatch of thousands of surgical masks and protective gear for health care workers.
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Separately, GM also said it will start next week producing Level 2750 surgical masks at its Warren, Mich.
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Surgical masks have seen a sixfold increase, N803 respirators have trebled and gowns have doubled, according to WHO.
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With yellow surgical masks, you're supposed to wear them for 10 to 20 minutes or they're not effective.
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Both surgical masks and N95s contain an inner mesh of tiny plastic fibers that functions as a filter.
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A similar manikin study demonstrated that surgical masks reduce exposure to aerosolized influenza virus by sixfold, on average.
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A 2008 paper found that masks made from kitchen towels were about half as protective as surgical masks.
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Many face masks on the market, including surgical masks, do not effectively filter out particles in the air.
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"Plain surgical masks are likely to be effective due to [coronavirus] likely transmitted by droplet," Dr. Pardo said.
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A 24-year-old protester walked around with a box of surgical masks, urging people to take one.
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We coughed into surgical masks or scarves and clutched at our throats, but then turned back for more.
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Secretary Azar is saying the U.S. has to establish supply and "build up manufacturing capacity" for surgical masks.
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Surgical masks are flat and pleated, but one you'll see people wearing often is the N95 respirator, too.
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For the most part, my daily life is unchanged with the exception of a few more surgical masks.
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Under a pristine blue sky, the couple strolled in surgical masks, maintaining a six-foot distance from other passengers.
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All of us, even the first-aiders, we only had N95 [surgical] masks, which is useless against tear gas.
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They are intended for reuse, which surgical masks are not, and are intended to be washed in hot water.
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China pledged on Wednesday to provide two million surgical masks, 200,000 advanced masks and 50,000 testing kits to Europe.
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He said his hospital was down to a two-day supply of surgical masks — he wears one per shift.
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A passerby urged her to stock up on surgical masks, warning her that her age made her especially vulnerable.
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They're not even as tough as surgical masks that, until recently, were plentiful in any hospital or doctor's office.
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In the first part, subdued yet anxious citizens in surgical masks are going about their day to day lives.
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That letter, seen by CNN, gives the students medical advice, warning them to remain indoors and wear surgical masks.
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In recent days, for instance, the sight of people wearing surgical masks in the subway has become more common.
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And hospitals are running short of equipment such as surgical masks, full-body hazmat-style suits and protective goggles.
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In Hong Kong, people have been waiting as long as three hours outside of pharmacies to buy surgical masks.
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As cheaper surgical masks grow more scarce, boutique suppliers of face masks like Vogmask have been growing more popular.
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During that time, her Modern Family costars were known to wear surgical masks to protect her fragile immune system.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that all healthcare professionals use surgical masks to cover the mouths and noses while working, but some hospitals, according to the Times, have required employees to wear N95s — thicker, tighter-fitting masks that do a better job of filtering out smaller particles than regular surgical masks.
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The video shows the boys in an isolation ward in beds with crisp white sheets and wearing green surgical masks.
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Today, we see photos of people on subways around the world wearing surgical masks in an attempt to stay healthy.
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Everyone is carrying around a paper towel for touching door handles, and a few employees have started wearing surgical masks.
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A century later, the advent of modern molecular techniques confirmed that surgical masks can indeed provide good protection against flu.
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As thunderstorms rolled across the city, trash crews cleared away surgical masks, water bottles and other debris from the clashes.
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"GM also said that it would start making "FDA-cleared Level 1 surgical masks at its Warren, Michigan manufacturing facility.
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The thieves made off with more than $200,000, aided in part by surgical masks they wore to conceal their identities.
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A few people wore surgical masks; one woman held the end of a paisley scarf to her mouth and nose.
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In the absence of surgical masks, the CDC has recommended using bandanas, scarves, and handmade masks as a last resort.
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It has become clear that our real bilateral relationship with China is about the production of pharmaceuticals and surgical masks.
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Surgical masks and N95 masks with advanced filtration, worn by medical staff under face shields, are also in short supply.
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Although surgical masks are not tightly sealed like N95s, the filters they contain are still a major impediment to microbes.
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Lee said she regularly wore surgical masks after the government recommended doing so in 2003 during an outbreak of SARS.
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But over the past few weeks, more and more people have been wearing surgical masks in public -- for health reasons.
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Police officers with surgical masks were sent to pick up bodies from homes, but 33 police officers died within weeks.
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During the past four months of unrest, many participants in peaceful protests have worn surgical masks to avoid being recognised.
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Half a world way in the US, major retailers are selling out of basic surgical masks amid panic from consumers.
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Maesi Caes and Elliana Walmsley, both former Dance Moms participants, cozied up to Miller while wearing surgical masks in the photo.
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They brought their own surgical masks to wear - his black to match his suit, and hers white to match her dress.
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Read more: Costco is selling out of surgical masks in South Korea, as the country battles the spread of the coronavirus
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However, with masks beginning to sell out in countries around the world, the reliance on surgical masks is the new normal.
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When the first case was confirmed, the city implemented a ration on surgical masks to prevent residents from rapidly decreasing supply.
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They brought their own surgical masks to wear - his black to match his suit, and hers white to match her dress.
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Meanwhile, medical-supply companies like 3M and Honeywell are ramping up production of surgical masks to keep up with surging demand.
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And almost always, accompanying the rescue workers were volunteers clearing debris and distributing water, surgical masks and mustard-colored work gloves.
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Courtesy masks, or what we doctors refer to as surgical masks, were introduced into the operating room in the late 1800s.
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Normally, doctors can obtain N95 masks, which provide a higher degree of protection than surgical masks, freely, according to the doctor.
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For example, COVID-19 has caused a worldwide shortage of surgical masks because China is the world's largest producer of masks.
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Within a few days, about 513 of his colleagues had left boxes of gloves, lab coats and surgical masks for donation.
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The outdoor product retailer is shifting its typical production to make high-in-demand N95 masks as well as surgical masks.
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Several systems, including Montefiore Medical Center, are rationing surgical masks and N95 respirators because protective gear is so limited, workers said.
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He previously discouraged the general population from panic-buying surgical masks over fears it would create a shortage among healthcare workers.
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The surgical masks currently in such short supply that everyone is wearing were not designed for respiratory protection in coronavirus outbreaks.
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Surgical masks were quickly selling out the day I visited, due to fears of the Wuhan coronavirus spreading in South Korea.
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Online, users have offered to barter surgical masks, which actually are in short supply, for a few rolls of toilet paper.
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Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd said it would allow flight attendants to wear surgical masks while on mainland China flights.
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"Yesterday I ordered enough surgical masks and Purell for a week and was basically planning to troop it out," he said.
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There was a sizable line of people — most wearing surgical masks — waiting to get their hands on the bright pink bread.
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Surgical masks, meanwhile, are designed to keep droplets and splatter from passing from a person's mouth to nearby surfaces or people.
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N95 respirators in theory outperform surgical masks (which are the more traditional, looser-fitting medical masks), but they're genuinely difficult to fit and use properly — to the point that a 2016 review in CMAJ couldn't find a difference among health care workers using N95 respirators versus surgical masks for respiratory infection, likely due to poor fitting.
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Surgical masks are typically more useful to people who are already sick because it prevents them from spreading an infection to others.
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Go to Camden Market and you might bump into some cybergoths decked out in colorful latex, surgical masks and tube hair extensions.
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While surgical masks can block only large-particle droplets, N95 masks filter out 95 percent of all airborne particles when used correctly.
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It is also pressing French medical supply factories to produce N95 masks and surgical masks around the clock for domestic use only.
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The Taiwanese authorities also oversaw the controlled distribution of surgical masks from existing stockpiles through community stores, having also fixed their price.
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Police on Wednesday requisitioned some 69,000 surgical masks and more than 5,000 protective goggles and gloves to be transferred to health workers.
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Police on Wednesday requisitioned some 69,000 surgical masks and more than 5,000 protective goggles and gloves to be transferred to health workers.
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New York City will receive more than 4503,000 N-95 masks, 430,000 surgical masks, 176,000 gloves, 72,000 gowns and 98,1003 face shields.
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Chinese citizens in France have been targeted for wearing surgical masks during the coronavirus outbreak, according to China's embassy in the country.
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On Wednesday, China offered the European Union as a whole two million surgical masks, 200,000 advanced N95 masks and 50,000 testing kits.
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Boxes of surgical masks that sold last month for $823 were going for $282 at one grocery store in Chinatown in Manhattan.
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Unitika Ltd which makes materials used in surgical masks and healthcare goods rose 15.59%, while Kansai Electric Power Co rose by 1.32%.
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Costco warehouses in South Korea are selling out of surgical masks, as shoppers attempt to combat the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
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Store-bought surgical masks likely won't help protect against the Wuhan coronavirusThere's currently no available vaccine to protect against the novel coronavirus.
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Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control said last week that healthy people did not need to wear surgical masks unless visiting a hospital.
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Like the surgical masks that have become ubiquitous in China, thermometer guns tend to be unreliable outside carefully controlled health care settings.
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While face masks are flying off shelves, no health organizations are recommending that healthy people wear surgical masks or N95 respirator masks.
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Related: Public health experts in the U.S. fear that the hoarding of surgical masks could raise the risk of a domestic outbreak.
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I'm continuing to travel and would advise others to do the same — just stock up on surgical masks before leaving the US.
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Both leaders have called on the federal government to nationalize the industries that manufacture supplies like hand sanitizer, surgical masks, and ventilators.
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In Beijing, some malls stayed open during the extended holiday but staff wearing surgical masks stood outside shops offering to take customers' temperatures.
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But demand for surgical masks has skyrocketed in China, where the police require anyone who goes out in public to wear a mask.
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Certain masks can filter out fine particles, but surgical masks are useless, and so are the ones used to protect against big particles.
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Delivered to Washington, as of three days ago: 369,000 N95 respirators, 507,406 surgical masks, 63,788 face shields, 107,850 surgical gowns and 240,376 gloves.
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"I know flowers aren't surgical masks or medicine, but I'm hoping they will provide simple happiness during these dark times," Lahbati told CNN.
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You first see Setsuko on a crowded train platform, a gray speck in a quiet sea of people, many wearing white surgical masks.
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GM will also start making surgical masks, a critical component for health care workers, at its idled factory in Warren, Michigan, next week.
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GM will also start making surgical masks, a critical component for health care workers, at its idled factory in Warren, Michigan, next week.
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Fears of product shortages have also led people to steal products like hand sanitizer and surgical masks from grocery stores and doctors' offices.
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She found herself having to reuse surgical masks for days, against the advice of health experts, simply to be able to buy essentials.
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Another user admitted they created and shared a fake Taiwanese government document that said citizens in Taiwan would receive 10 free surgical masks.
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ICE is asking for 20093,000 N95 masks, the crucial surgical masks in short supply at hospitals around the country during the coronavirus outbreak.
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In Beijing, some malls stayed open during the extended holiday but staff wearing surgical masks stood outside shops offering to take customers' temperatures.
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He said the U.S. currently has a stockpile of 6633 million surgical masks, but HHS estimates suggest the country needs 300 million masks.
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He said the U.S. currently has a stockpile of 30 million surgical masks, but HHS estimates suggest the country needs 300 million masks.
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Because of the shortage, the Center for Disease Control recently loosened safety regulations and said common surgical masks are acceptable to use instead.
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Trudeau told a news conference that the money would in part help buy surgical masks and face shields and also fund vaccine research.
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More than 90 percent of surgical masks sold in the United States are produced overseas, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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There isn't evidence yet that 2019-nCov is transmitting through the air, and experts are skeptical that surgical masks help protect against the virus.
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Mr. Coaxum learned of his AIDS diagnosis shortly before the trial and in the drawing, court officers are shown wearing surgical masks and gloves.
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Health officials have sought to calm fears among the public over the outbreak, which has seen stores in Yangon sell out of surgical masks.
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As one doctor at NYU Langone Health told the New York Times, homemade masks free up the surgical masks for the highest-risk people.
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Leonardo Gayer, 37, a marketing director for an energy drink company, and his wife Vanessa, 5003, pushed through the turnstiles wearing white surgical masks.
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As for surgical masks, most regular versions don't provide enough protection from small respiratory particles, nor are they recommended for anyone besides healthcare workers.
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This week it said it would send five million masks to South Korea and export 100,000 respirators and two million surgical masks to Italy.
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The problem is that the particles that carry the COVID-19 virus are small and easily move right through dust masks and surgical masks.
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New York state currently has 219 million N95 masks, 4.6 million surgical masks, 1.5 million exam gloves, 15,000 gowns and coveralls, and 3,213 ventilators.
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Similarly, surgical masks appeared to reduce the spread of flu within 295 households in Berlin when they were used within 219 hours of symptoms.
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Several hospitals in affected cities have sent out pleas for donations online, saying they were running short of surgical masks, gloves and other supplies.
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In recent days, the sight of people wearing surgical masks as they rode the subway or walked on the streets has grown more common.
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Moon's mishandling of the crisis, by not moving quickly to close the country's borders to China and not supplying enough surgical masks for citizens.
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A post on WeChat with photos of young people wearing surgical masks inscribed with "I cannot" and "I do not understand" quickly spread online.
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Surgical masks aren't considered respiratory protection by the CDC because they don't filter smaller particles, and therefore isn't effective in totally preventing coronavirus transmission.
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Five machines made surgical masks, the thin rectangular pads that cover the nose and mouth, while other machines pieced together the more rugged respiratory masks.
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At the bottom of the hill, in a small park near a major road, Mr. López and his helpers distributed helmets, kneepads and surgical masks.
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The CDC recently weakened its guidelines on infectious disease protections for health care workers to allow loose-fitting surgical masks instead of N-95 respirators.
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And rather than loose-fitting, inadequate surgical masks or scarves, nurses demand that our employers give us the highest level of personal protective equipment (PPE).
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The agency has recommended limited reuse of face masks, and suggested the use of surgical masks instead of N95s, which don't filter out airborne viruses.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has donated $2900 million to a fundraiser raising money to provide surgical masks and other medical supplies to San Francisco's health department.
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Ohio's attorney general issued similar warnings to two abortion providers Friday, ordering them to stop "non-essential" procedures that require equipment such as surgical masks.
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Amid shortages of surgical masks, gloves and protective gowns, medical workers are appearing on television and social media to confess their fear of being infected.
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UT Health in Austin, has also seen a bump in theft of hand sanitizer and surgical masks, according to chief information health officer Aaron Miri.
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Health experts say most surgical masks don't really protect you from getting a virus; they're designed to protect others from getting a virus from you.
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The province said that in the last several days, it has ordered 12 million gloves, 1 million N95 respirators, and nearly 0003 million surgical masks.
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Before that happened, however, the company's contacts in China began offering up the opportunity to purchase surgical masks, gloves, and large quantities of hand sanitizer.
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A recent review of six randomized controlled trials found no significant difference in the effectiveness of N95 respirators and paper surgical masks at preventing infections.
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Thieves commonly use surgical masks to conceal their faces, and the ones used on Saturday night made for a notable choice during the coronavirus outbreak.
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I have been instructed to preserve it for up to 220 days by covering it with regular surgical masks which are also on critical shortage.
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I have been instructed to preserve it for up to 295 days by covering it with regular surgical masks which are also on critical shortage.
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The respirator shortage has become so acute that medical personnel are relying on surgical masks, looser-fitting garments that offer a lower level of protection.
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As the coronavirus outbreak continues to dominate headlines, Japanese electronics company Sharp has announced it will use its Mie Prefecture plant to produce surgical masks.
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Surgical masks wont protect us from getting the virus they just protect us from infecting someone else, the CDC medical official involved in screening said.
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SEOUL, South Korea — Costco locations in South Korea are selling out of surgical masks, as people attempt to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
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While some people have taken to wearing surgical masks to guard against infection, experts say this won't help much unless the mask is hospital-grade.
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N95 respirators and regular surgical masks have been unavailable on all major e-commerce platforms in the United States and China since early this year.
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However, the CDC has directed healthcare providers to give surgical masks to any patients that present flu-like symptoms or have recently traveled to Wuhan.
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Chinese authorities have encouraged people in the city of Wuhan to wear surgical masks in public to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus.
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In the Philippines, the government distributed free surgical masks to high school and college students after its first coronavirus case was confirmed on Febuary 1.
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And that isn't just a problem for China: The US gets 95 percent of its surgical masks from overseas, and China is the world's largest supplier.
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People camped out overnight Tuesday to Wednesday after a company said it would release 6,000 boxes of surgical masks, according to the South China Morning Post.
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On Tuesday night, thousands of Hong Kong residents camped out overnight after a company announced that it would release 6,000 boxes of surgical masks for sale.
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At 9.16am a wooden pathway is lifted onto the shore, where crowds of people, including policemen wearing white surgical masks, nuns and local journalists are waiting.
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Each night in Tokyo, several thousand men and women suit up, donning ties, white gloves, and even surgical masks to quietly ferry passengers around the city.
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Authorities have carried out health awareness campaigns and sought to calm public fears over the outbreak, although stores have sold out of surgical masks in Yangon.
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The biggest surprise: Cheap paper surgical masks did quite well, almost as well as the American-made N-95 masks that the researchers used for comparison.
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Officers wearing surgical masks can be seen beating people breaking the rules, while it appears others gathered up groups of violators and made them do pushups.
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Inslee's office said the federal government hasn't filled the state's most recent request for tens of thousands of additional N95 respirators, surgical masks and face shields.
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A registered nurse in New Hampshire said that healthcare workers at her hospital have no N95 respirators, which has forced them to re-use surgical masks.
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The city Monday sent some supplies it had amassed to hospitals, de Blasio said, including 200,000 N95 masks, 2 million surgical masks and 70,000 face shields.
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NIS, Serbia, March 20 (Reuters) - Convicts are helping Serbia manufacture surgical masks and other protective gear following a surge in demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
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Walmart also recommended surgical masks, said Guillermo Valdez, 65, who packs groceries at a Superama in upscale Polanco, but said none were available early this week.
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Employees have had the option to wear surgical masks since the beginning of the pandemic, and use of TSA standard nitrile gloves continues to be mandatory.
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New York (CNN Business)The European Union announced on March 15 it was restricting exports of personal protective equipment, including face shields, surgical masks and gowns.
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Mr. Trump said on Monday that FEMA was in the process of distributing more than eight million N95 masks and 13 million surgical masks to states.
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Dr. Stephen Anderson, an emergency room veteran, said there was a two-day supply of surgical masks at his hospital, MultiCare Auburn Medical Center near Seattle.
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A study published in the Journal of Hospital Infection in 2013 found that surgical masks could help reduce exposure to infectious influenza virus in the air.
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When the virus gripped Hong Kong in January, he was unable to source surgical masks, and even when he found them, he could not afford them.
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Cover: In a May 6, 2009 file photo a store attendant holds an N-95 mask over a box of disposable surgical masks in Manila, Philippines.
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Most surgical masks and respirators are produced outside of the US, which means supply chains could be vulnerable if a global pandemic breaks out, Wired reported.
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We go to three different pharmacies and in all of the surgical masks are sold out too but I get three small bottles of hand sanitizers.
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Lam also promised to deploy all the resources needed to prevent the disease, including increasing the supply of surgical masks for people to wear in public.
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Surgical masks: While they do protect from large respiratory droplets (a spray from a sneeze or mucus from a cough), they don't prevent against airborne droplets.
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People in Korea, Japan, and parts of China regularly wear what are often called "courtesy masks" — surgical masks worn to prevent their germs from infecting others.
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The museum's broad definition of fashion includes acrylic nails and nail art, sun block, Revlon's Fire & Ice red lipstick, surgical masks, and even an original Sony Walkman.
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Demand is especially strong for high-filtration respiratory masks, which can be more effective against the spread of virus-laden droplets than surgical masks, Mr. Laverdure said.
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A spokeswoman at Japanese airline ANA Holdings Inc also reported rising demand for medical supplies such as surgical masks although shipments of other goods had been delayed.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Wearing surgical masks, motorcycle helmets and clothes stained with blood and grime, they populate the protest barricades of Baghdad, chanting for the government to fall.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Wearing surgical masks, motorcycle helmets and clothes stained with blood and grime, they populate the protest barricades of Baghdad, chanting for the government to fall.
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Even a specific issue like the production of surgical masks, outsourced like so many things to China, could have been the focus of a Trump-directed mobilization.
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The union pushed for them to be able to wear respirators at work, but, according to a statement from AFGE, TSA management refused, only allowing surgical masks.
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On Walmart's marketplace, CNBC found a listing for a 50-pack of Halyard surgical masks priced at $50 and 10 boxes of 50 disposable masks for $80.
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By midday Tuesday, nearly 700 passengers wearing surgical masks had left the ship in small groups escorted by personnel dressed in full protective gear to chartered buses.
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At a Thursday visit to 3M in Minnesota, Vice President Mike Pence noted the company can currently only produce 4 million FDA-blessed surgical masks per month.
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The memo said that the Rotterdam crew would have enough surgical masks and gloves for the estimated seven-to-10-day voyage up to the United States.
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Traditional surgical masks can prevent sick people from spreading the virus, but they are believed to be of limited use in keeping healthy people from getting infected.
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Nurses have shared horror stories of using cotton rags, bras, porous surgical masks or anything on hand to cover their mouths to keep from contracting COVID-23.
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Officers are being asked to place surgical masks on some people they interact with if they believe the people could be infected with the virus, officials said.
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While many people have taken to buying and wearing masks to prevent coronavirus, wearing surgical masks will likely not protect you from contracting COVID-19, Lee says.
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When Vivi Widyaningsih stopped by her local Target and CVS stores in Tallahassee, Florida, she was surprised to find that all surgical masks were out of stock.
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At some hospitals, two doctors said, surgical masks had begun to disappear in noticeable numbers, leading administrators to conclude that staff members were probably bringing them home.
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Everyone was wearing masks, from basic surgical masks, which were being handed out in hotels and offices, to much more elaborate closefitting masks with respirators in them.
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But in the US, there's no need to wear surgical masks -- or the N95 respirators physicians wear when treating viruses -- says infectious disease expert Dr. Charles Chiu.
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In Vietnam, she said, the opposite would occur — people not wearing surgical masks would be seen as dangerous, potentially spreading the virus by refusing to take precautions.
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Compared to N95 masks, surgical masks provide inadequate protection from the virus, leaving nurses across the country feeling like they are working without the necessary safety gear.
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However, locals are more concerned about the next few days, keeping an uneasy eye on their backyard volcano and wearing surgical masks to ward off the ash.
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On social media, Chinese people shared images of bouquets filled with surgical masks, joking that they were the true symbols of love in the time of the coronavirus.
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Some companies have provided personal protection supplies such as surgical masks and hand disinfectant for employees who have to come to the office to perform their job duties.
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Standard surgical masks are designed to block large particles and droplets, not small virus particles, and they're typically loose-fitting with gaps around the nose, mouth, and chin.
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Across the road, a seller surnamed Hui at a Watsons pharmacy says her store often runs out of cooling pads, surgical masks and other supplies that protesters use.
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Delivered to New York, as of three days ago: 8503,2850 N2240 respirators, 2376,000 O-78 surgical masks, 84,560 face shields, 68,944 surgical gowns, 2403 coveralls and 245,486 gloves.
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" A spokesperson for Pornhub told The Hill on Wednesday that the company "purchased the surgical masks directly from a New York based supplier this week for the donation.
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Amazon and other retailers have taken steps to prevent price gouging and hoarding in recent days as panicked buyers have sought to buy surgical masks in large numbers.
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He also bizarrely appeared to accuse health workers of stealing surgical masks amid huge shortages brought on by terrible conditions in hospitals and accused states of "hoarding" ventilators.
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Hospitals have been trying to find more of the N95 masks that are most effective at preventing virus spread, as well as lighter surgical masks, goggles and gowns.
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Over the weekend, the Chinese Embassy in France issued a warning to citizens in the country, saying some students have been targeted for wearing surgical masks in public.
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In the face of such shortages, the administration has loosened regulations to allow for simple surgical masks to be used in temporary circumstances, instead of the N95 respirators.
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The news came as one major hospital, Toronto's Michael Garron, launched an online donation drive, asking veterinarians, dentists and others to donate gloves, goggles, surgical masks and more.
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Separately, the federal government has said it will provide 500,000 N95s, 1 million surgical masks, 750,000 gowns, 500,000 gloves, 750,000 face shields and 20,000 units of hand sanitizer.
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J.B. Pritzker announced that after the president promised him he would ship 300,000 N95 masks to Illinois, the federal government sent his state thousands of surgical masks instead.
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US Department of Health and Human Services figures say 95 percent of surgical masks and 70 percent of tighter-fitting respirators, such as N193 masks, are made overseas.
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Doctors report being short on protective gear like surgical masks and gowns; The New York Times reported that some medical workers fashioned makeshift goggles out of plastic folders.
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Along with the shortage of hazmat suits, hospitals are also experiencing a low supply of other protective gear, such as surgical masks and protective goggles, according to ThePaper.
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He almost cried, he told a chat group, when he saw that doctors and nurses at a local fever clinic had nothing for protection except ordinary surgical masks.
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President Moon Jae-in predicted that the outbreak would "disappear before long," while the prime minister assured people that it was OK not to wear surgical masks outdoors.
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Guests with mold allergies are cautioned to wear surgical masks — or better yet not to breathe at all — since the carpet is original and has never been cleaned.
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The youngest, 11, appeared asleep under a crisp white sheet while others, including their 25-year-old soccer coach, sat in bed, their faces obscured by green surgical masks.
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Nothing has been finalized yet, but they could soon begin recommending that people wear disposable paper surgical masks, scarves, and other DIY face coverings to help slow the spread.
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The government provided California with 103,000 surgical masks, 9% of the state's request; 163,228 face shields, 2000% of its request; and 2145,2101 surgical gowns, 2000% of the state's request.
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Reuters reported that Kyiv police say the suspects posed as members of state security forces before robbing and assaulting the man who was selling surgical masks from his car.
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Hospitals are still discussing how they'll use homemade masks Deaconess Health System ramped up its order of surgical masks in January when it saw the outbreak spreading in China.
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" Partenheimer said the USPS was working urgently to acquire and ship additional supplies, and that it was "making gloves and surgical masks available to all employees that request them.
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Different types of masks under debate In this debate, there are different types of masks in question: N95 respirator masks, surgical masks and cloth masks, which could be homemade.
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The Strategic National Stockpile included 12 million N95 respirators and 1003 million surgical masks — just 1 percent of what the country requires in a pandemic scenario, according to officials.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the other hand, has instructed health care providers to use N95s, which block out much smaller particles than surgical masks do.
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On Sunday night on a road outside Casalpusterlengo, one of the locked-down towns, police officers in surgical masks halted cars, asking what business they had in the town.
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Panic-buying of surgical masks and hand sanitizers has at times left store shelves stripped bare, driving up prices, while armed robbers this month stole hundreds of toilet rolls.
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Panic-buying of surgical masks and hand sanitizers has at times left store shelves stripped bare, driving up prices, while armed robbers this month stole hundreds of toilet rolls.
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Even as supplies like surgical masks and food run low in Wuhan, the one thing that Adama said foreigners need — but are lacking — is critical information about the coronavirus.
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The crowd, a mix of young and elderly people, wore black and turquoise surgical masks to hide their identities as they listened to organizers speaking on a makeshift stage.
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Clinton had a coughing attack last week, Matt Drudge, editor of The Drudge Report, posted a spoof photo of her traveling press corps wearing surgical masks on her campaign plane.
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Around the world, countries like Australia, South Africa, and Japan, are facing shortages of surgical masks and toilet paper, causing them to take drastic measures to handle to panic-buying.
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President Donald Trump said this week that FEMA is distributing 8 million special medical masks and 14 million surgical masks to areas around the country, particularly where they're needed most.
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A company called HiTech Filters heard about the project and said that they can mass-produce inserts from hospital grade HEPA filtration material quickly and without sacrificing precious surgical masks.
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But instead of managing the shortage by telling the public surgical masks aren't useful, the US ought to make more masks and widen the circle of people who get them.
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Instead, what Illinois received were surgical masks, which are not considered respiratory protection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and are not totally effective in preventing coronavirus transmission.
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This happy couple is never gonna forget their first kiss as husband and wife -- that'll happen when ya get married in the middle of a pandemic, while wearing surgical masks!!!
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According to the CDC, the surgical masks shown in the photos and videos are not considered respiratory protection, while N95 masks filter out at least 95 percent of airborne particles.
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In 2006, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh shared with the CDC guidelines for making an effective facemask when surgical masks and N95 masks are unavailable during a viral outbreak.
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As of Wednesday, on eBay, 12 boxes of 20 surgical masks were being sold for $5,000 and a bundle of about a dozen hand sanitizer bottles was going for $3,500.
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Randomized control studies have shown that there is no evidence cloth masks are as good as disposable surgical masks, and that extended use—much less reuse—may be an issue.
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The CDC and other health agencies often say that surgical masks catch only spurts of bodily fluids and very large respiratory droplets, and that they cannot filter tiny infectious particles.
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So far, viral goofs about the coronavirus have contained strong messages on everything from racism and wearing surgical masks to the risks of touching your face and shaking people's hands.
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Instead of recommending health care workers to wear N2500 respirators, which filter out 2000 percent of airborne particles, less protective surgical masks are now "an acceptable alternative," health officials said.
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Yet, people across the country have descended on local pharmacies or health supply stores to hoard boxes of surgical masks, even in states where there isn't a serious coronavirus threat.
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Surgical masks work by blocking out germs from large particle droplets and preventing mouth-borne germs from transferring from person to person in areas of close contact like public transit.
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On Saturday, hundreds of anti-government protesters, many wearing surgical masks and dressed in black, marched in multiple neighbourhoods against plans to potentially turn some buildings into coronavirus quarantine centres.
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It also said that, in the event of a shortage, health-care providers should consider using surgical masks beyond their shelf life in lower-risk situations, like outside of surgery.
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De Blasio said New York City needs 3 million N95 respirator masks, 50 million surgical masks, 15,000 ventilators and 25 million each of surgical gowns, coveralls, gloves and face shield masks.
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His comments contrasted sharply to pleas from health care workers who are running out of surgical masks and fear there won't be enough ventilators to treat patients who contract the disease.
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The surgical masks are cut into smaller squares that can be clipped into the plastic mask to serve as a filter, Dusty Richardson, a neurosurgeon at the Billings Clinic told CNN.
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The standard "uniform" for any health care employee as they brave the packed hospital includes gloves, face shields, surgical masks, gowns or lab coats, and covers for their hair and shoes.
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If invoked further, the DPA could help scale up the production of desperately needed N95 respirators, as many hospitals have had to rely on looser-fitting and less effective surgical masks.
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There are a variety of items, including basic surgical masks and a more sophisticated N95 facemask, as well as hand-assembled kits full of hand sanitizer, face masks and surgical gloves.
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On March 24, the leading adult entertainment streaming platform announced it is donating 50,000 surgical masks to New York area medics and first responders such as emergency medical technicians and firefighters.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city delivered 200,000 N95 masks to hospitals Friday, with 800,000 more to come Saturday, along with loads of less-protective surgical masks and other gear.
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"It frees up the surgical masks for the people who are the highest risk," said Dr. Nicole Seminara, a doctor at NYU Langone Health who is volunteering in the coronavirus ward.
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In recent days, one of the company's plants in Michigan has begun using its fabric-cutting equipment to churn out surgical masks with material donated by textile companies in the Carolinas.
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While the efficacy and safety of the DIY cloth masks are no match for the N95 surgical masks currently in short supply around the country, they're often considered better than nothing.
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Surgical masks, also called procedural masks when worn outside the operating room, are usually soft, pleated rectangles secured to the face with strings or ear loops and pulled under the chin.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Border guards have arrested a man in a wetsuit who admitted to smuggling surgical masks across a river from Ukraine into Romania, Ukraine's border guard service said on Thursday.
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And in Italy, which has been hit harder by the coronavirus outbreak than any other European country, authorities have opened an investigation into high prices for surgical masks, according to Reuters.
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The warehouse is stacked to its 40-foot ceilings with surgical masks, gowns and gloves, and more extreme protective gear like N95 respirators and enclosed Tyvek suits, which resemble hazmat suits.
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But flat surgical masks don't help people stay healthy, because air can get in around the edges, and because they encourage people to fiddle with their faces to adjust their masks.
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Residents were supposed to leave or enter the towns only with special permission, affecting at least 50,773 people, and by Sunday night, police officers in surgical masks were waving down cars.
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But we share more intangible everyday frustrations: loud or dark restaurants, fast talkers, slow talkers, bad seats, surgical masks, subway conversations, pillow talk and the entire film genre known as mumblecore.
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Even N95 respirators, which are said to be more effective than surgical masks in stopping transmission of the virus, are also out of stock on all major online platforms in China.
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In China's Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, local authorities have mandated that residents wear masks when they go outside, but they haven't stipulated whether people wear surgical masks or respirators.
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In Italy, which has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus outbreak compared with other European countries, authorities have opened an investigation into high prices for surgical masks, according to Reuters.
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The inspiration for the design they debuted at the Science Gallery London pop-up came from Southeast Asia, Gupta says, where surgical masks worn for pollution have become a fashion statement.
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Decked out in surgical masks and sun hats, Ortiz's collective - Grupo Vida or "Life Group" - keeps up a near-constant digging operation around the city of Torreon in the state of Coahuila.
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A white board in the hospital's command center conference room lists available supplies: The most recent tally showed 42,000 surgical masks, which get used at a rate of about 6,000 per day.
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Yuan Fajun, the secretary general of the medical materials committee at the China Medical Pharmaceutical Material Association, said manufacturers still needed to produce another 230 million surgical masks for the domestic market.
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It's up to the provinces and territories to keep Canada's public health agency updated and ensure they have the resources necessary to cope with the virus—surgical masks and gloves, for instance.
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The other two salons, Primp & Polish in Brooklyn, and Tenoverten in New York City, are sticking to their normal surgical masks, but making sure that their workers wear them throughout their service.
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Homemade face masks are not as effective as surgical masks or N95 respirators, but most experts say they are better than nothing when it comes to preventing the spread of the coronavirus.
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While at first focused on N230 masks, Lurie soon updated it to include nitrile gloves, surgical masks, and protective eyewear, and separately set up a Slack channel to communicate with volunteer drivers.
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If the advice is updated, The Post reported, the CDC would stress that surgical masks and N95 masks should be saved for medical professionals and that others should make their own masks.
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China is also now sending aid — needed respiratory and surgical masks, ventilators and medical personnel — to Italy and Serbia, which have condemned their European allies for not providing early and efficient help.
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In January in Chicago, a local television news truck recorded a group of teenagers wearing surgical masks as they fled a smash-and-grab robbery of a Gucci store on Magnificent Mile.
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What the bills passed so far have not addressed is the terrifying shortage of ventilators, respirator masks, surgical masks, and hospital or intensive-care beds—all of which currently have doctors panicking.
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If we eventually have a surplus of surgical masks, which are much more comfortable and affordable than respirators and still provide excellent protection, they would be an ideal choice for universal masking.
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US officials have been mostly coping with a comprehensive equipment shortage by discouraging ordinary citizens from using surgical masks, in contrast to the widespread practice of community mask usage in Asian countries.
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Last week, eight hospitals in Hubei Province — where Wuhan is situated and where most of the cases have appeared — put out a call for N95 masks, goggles, surgical masks and surgical gowns.
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Some wore surgical masks, others wore Bane-style masks—but "technically what you should do is wear N-95 masks, which are certified to remove more than 95 percent of particles," Rajagopalan says.
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Amid coronavirus fears, a mask shortage could spread globally As millions of Chinese remain in lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, a new global problem has arisen: a shortage of surgical masks.
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The Taiwanese government also made it easier for the general public to buy surgical masks, creating a centralized online system to ration and ship them (each mask is sold for less than $0.25).
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These are to be used in tandem with N95 and surgical masks, and can protect a healthcare professional from exposure to droplets containing the virus expelled by patients when they cough or sneeze.
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This isn't the first time surgical masks have been used in robberies; in the fall there was a series of five robberies in Austin, Texas featuring a suspect who wore a medical mask.
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KIEV, March 19 (Reuters) - Border guards have arrested a man in a wetsuit who admitted to smuggling surgical masks across a river from Ukraine into Romania, Ukraine's border guard service said on Thursday.
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The convoluted timeline and uncertain parameters of Trump's use of the Defense Production Act comes as hospital workers continue to raise concerns about shortages of essential medical equipment like surgical masks and ventilators.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's police have requisitioned 150,000 surgical masks from a factory in the southern city of Jaen to supply health services, the Civil Guards police force said in a statement on Monday.
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But by the time we landed in my mother's hometown — wearing the duck-billed N95 surgical masks that my sister, a medical student, had gotten us —the decision had been made for us.
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Concerns range from public health threats to economic damage, from the breakdown and availability of virus test kits and the production of needed surgical masks to the health of global manufacturing supply chains.
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Surgical masks are now ubiquitous on the subway, and Hong Kong is facing a serious shortage of face masks, according to Horace Lau, the vice president of Hong Kong's General Chamber of Pharmacy.
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When finally he looked up, both the doctor and Rosa Hinojosa were wearing masks of their own, and Rosa Hinojosa was pushing a box of disposable surgical masks across the desk to him.
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Tapping into the Japanese fashion aesthetics of punk and rave, as well as the ubiquitous surgical masks common throughout Asia, the video finds a visual subject matter to match the track's surly trap braggadocio.
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Surgical masks (the "blue ones") are not designed to filter the air you breathe -- they are designed to catch droplets of the person wearing it, primarily to keep surgeons from contaminating a surgical site.
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Cuomo said the state has had some luck finding extra gear for doctors and nurses and is sending hundreds of thousands of surgical masks, N95 masks, gloves and gowns to hospitals across the state.
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A Prada suit "that doesn't wrinkle," doubled-sided tape and surgical masks to (temporarily) shroud his identity are among the things that the Emmy-winning "Drag Race" star takes with him on every trip.
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According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 215 percent of surgical masks and 280 percent of respirators used in the US are made overseas, and China is one of the biggest producers.
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TSA Administrator David Pekoske said Tuesday that TSA screeners were taking precautions to reduce potential exposure to the coronavirus, including wearing surgical masks, using gloves and changing them frequently and also using hand sanitizer.
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Health workers in China generally have been following the W.H.O.'s guidelines to use so-called "standard precautions" which include surgical masks, rather than more expensive N95 masks, to cover their mouths and noses.
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The latest: More than 1,19773 protesters, many in surgical masks and balaclavas, filled a plaza near Hong Kong's financial district late on Monday to demand an inquiry into what they say is police brutality.
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About 700 people gathered on Tuesday morning inside the complex's main building, a two-story center on the 80-acre campus: mountain men with gray beards and canes alongside several people in blue surgical masks.
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One study from 2013 showed that both homemade masks and surgical masks "significantly reduced" the number of microorganisms expelled by participants, although the surgical mask was three times more effective in protecting the wearers themselves.
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Authorities across Asia, which has now been dealing with the virus for months, have urged that people wear surgical masks particularly on public transportation or in other crowded places to prevent transmission of the virus.
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Hospitals across the country have reported difficulties in obtaining sufficient supplies of surgical masks, gowns and other medical supplies amid the coronavirus outbreak, which has sickened tens of thousands of Americans and almost 400,000 globally.
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For example, the feds can tell factories making surgical masks to direct their products to New York — which is currently suffering the worst coronavirus outbreak in the US — over states that aren't as hard hit.
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MADRID, March 16 (Reuters) - Spain's police have requisitioned 150,000 surgical masks from a factory in the southern city of Jaen to supply health services, the Civil Guards police force said in a statement on Monday.
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The CDC has tested samples of masks past their expiration date and found many of them were still effective at providing better protection than surgical masks, improvised face coverings like bandanas, or nothing at all.
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"We have ample scientific evidence that this is the wrong step to take," she said, citing a report that surgical masks did not protect nurses from SARS, another respiratory coronavirus that spread worldwide in 2002.
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At Biomedica, lab clinicians wearing gloves, surgical masks, goggles, caps and full-body suits attended clients one by one, including lines of cars and people who waited outside with several feet of distance between them.
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At Biomedica, lab clinicians wearing gloves, surgical masks, goggles, caps and full-body suits attended clients one by one, including lines of cars and people who waited outside with several feet of distance between them.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters, some wearing surgical masks and respirators, took to the streets of the Serbian capital Belgrade on Friday, demanding the government tackle severe air pollution throughout the European Union candidate country.
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On Monday, by contrast, he made several appearances around Wuhan, visiting a hospital, where he promised to deliver 20,000 surgical masks, and a supermarket, where — now wearing a mask — he led workers in a chant.
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The authorities in Wuhan said they would also speed up the customs process for donated supplies, as hospitals in the city raise the alarm about a shortage of hospital gowns, surgical masks and other necessities.
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The National Community Pharmacists Association on Thursday released results of a national survey that said 96% of local pharmacies are experiencing a shortage of surgical masks, and nearly 40% are don't have enough N95 respirators.
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Masks could give wearers a false sense of security In China's Heibo Province where the coronavirus is thought to be actively spreading, surgical masks aren't a fail-safe, but they're "better than nothing," Popescu said.
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On the philanthropic side, Dell says the company has made a donation of two million yuan ($284,000 USD) to fund in-demand materials "including surgical masks, protective clothing and eye protectors for local hospitals" in China.
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Pornhub has pledged to donate 50,2023 surgical masks to medics and first responders in New York City and said it will make its premium content free for users for the next month during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Italy, the worst-affected country outside China, complained the EU had been too slow to help, as it desperately needed more surgical masks and ventilators for patients, which it is now relying on China to provide.
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"We're about 10 days away now from seeing widespread shortages of ventilators, surgical masks, the things necessary to keep a hospital system running," New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said on CNN on Sunday morning.
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In a statement given to Vogue, Inditex said that though it has already donated 10,000 face masks, it "expects to be in a position to ship another 300,7853 surgical masks" by the end of the week.
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A multiyear study from the University of Michigan found that requiring students in residence halls to use surgical masks and alcohol-based sanitizers could reduce the spread of flu-like symptoms by up to 75 percent.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A transparent plastic bag dropped at the door of my Shanghai apartment contained a handful of surgical masks along with a "friendly notice" informing me that I was under home quarantine for two weeks.
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As a result, prices for products like surgical masks have jumped to several times what they normally cost, with businesses and individuals selling masks in bulk at a premium on sites ranging from Facebook to Craigslist.
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The drawing is so detailed, Pappas works on it with 20-times magnification goggles attached to his face, and insists that people wear surgical masks when viewing it so as not to disturb its fine lines.
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The Department of Health stressed it is "on top of the evolving situation" but urged the public to wear surgical masks and avoid crowded places if they are experiencing symptoms, such as coughing and a fever.
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We'll likely have to revert back to the use of more available surgical masks in contrast to N95 respirators, which are the preferred PPE to prevent the spread of the virus between patients and health care personnel.
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BANGKOK, March 11 (Reuters) - Thailand's Commerce Ministry on Wednesday filed a complaint against the Alibaba backed e-commerce platform Lazada after investigations found that surgical masks were being sold at excessively high prices, a senior official said.
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In an oft-cited study of 446 nurses, researchers found surgical masks were as good, or nearly as good, at protecting the wearer against flu as respirators, a somewhat more high-tech, masklike device used in hospitals.
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Already, Flexport has been taking steps to get equipment where it's needed most: last week, it got 60,000 surgical masks, 34,000 gloves, 2,000 surgical gowns and 50 thermometers from MedShare to San Francisco's Department of Public Health.
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Other demands haven't been met, the union says, including providing surgical masks for sneezing or coughing passengers, giving each passenger a leakproof vomit bag, and making those "no-go items," without which the airplane won't take off.
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Most of the best studies, which are randomized controlled trials, focused on how well surgical masks protect health care workers in hospitals from picking up infections from sick patients, and found that consistent use of them helped.
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With demand for surgical masks on the rise in China, a drugstore in Beijing has been fined more than $400,000 by the government for charging customers roughly six times what the masks are being sold for online.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - More than 1,000 protesters, many in surgical masks and balaclavas, filled a harborside plaza near Hong Kong's financial district late on Monday to demand full democracy and an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality.
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The center&aposs teams of more than 50 conservationists wear surgical masks and use modern technology — like X-ray and ultraviolet machines — to uncover images that over time have faded away on canvases that average 300 years old.
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According to Vox, surgical masks are in high demand and even selling out at some pharmacies in the U.S. as panic surges—despite the fact that there are only 11 confirmed cases of the virus here so far.
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BEIJING, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A Chinese city with only eight confirmed cases of a new coronavirus has been accused of intercepting a shipment of surgical masks bound for a municipality with 400 cases, prompting outrage on social media.
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However, the continuing shortage of the more advanced N2500 respirator masks, which health care professionals need to care for infected people, means people will have to make do with disposable paper surgical masks or makeshift coverings like scarves.
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If it adopts the change, it would tell people to fashion their own face covers with cloth to free up surgical masks and N95 masks for medics and health workers, The Post reported, citing one of the officials.
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SHANGHAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A transparent plastic bag dropped at the door of my Shanghai apartment contained a handful of surgical masks along with a "friendly notice" informing me that I was under home quarantine for two weeks.
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Stanley Perlman, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Carver College of Medicine at University of Iowa and a longtime coronavirus researcher, said surgical masks aren't as good as keeping the virus out because they have larger pores.
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My trips to airports have been filled with recommendations regarding handwashing and surgical masks, via signs on the subway in Seoul and pop-ups on the Grab ride-hailing app in Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur.
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And experts in just about every global industry are fretting over the many supply chains that could be disrupted — from prescription drugs and surgical masks to rare earth metals — if the outbreak grows into an even wider epidemic.
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Early that morning, a few dozen folks, many of them young and wearing surgical masks to conceal their identities, bolted onto Harcourt Road, which runs past the city's government core, urging those hesitantly standing nearby to join them.
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Stores for miles around sold out of everything from surgical masks to the recommended N244 painter's masks — the only kind that can effectively filter 210 percent of the tiny particles that do the most damage to your lungs.
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On Sunday evening, protesters, mostly in trademark black clothing and surgical masks, laid down white flowers, origami cranes and messages on colored post-it notes at a makeshift altar where placards read "Keep the heat; Fight until the end".
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As of earlier this month, the US had 12 million N95 respirators and 30 million surgical masks in its Strategic National Stockpile — which officials acknowledged was just 1 percent of what the country needed in a full-blown pandemic.
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In a survey the organization released Friday, nearly half of the 1,400 infection prevention specialists who responded said they were nearly out of respirator masks and face shields, and a third said they were running low on surgical masks.
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As of the night of March 25, the city had more than 20,000 cases of COVID-19, swamping hospitals, and leaving medical workers struggling to stay protected because of a shortage of protective gear like aprons and surgical masks.
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For a study published in 2013, scientists compared the filtration efficiency of surgical masks to linen, silk, a scarf, a kitchen towel, a pillowcase, a vacuum cleaner bag, and masks that volunteers made from 100 percent-cotton T-shirts.
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They favored footage from his later "Wacko Jacko" years, when Jackson was pale, covered with surgical masks or oversized hats and sunglasses to hide his face, and surrounded by bodyguards, seemingly untouchable as fans waved and yelled wherever he went.
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And lastly, the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Binghamton University in Upstate New York has donated several thousand disposable gloves, 600 surgical masks, 29 N95 respirators, and disposable gowns to healthcare providers in the area.
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De Blasio said Monday evening that both the federal and state governments are sending additional supplies, including 953 ventilators from the federal stockpile, 295,245 surgical masks, 250,000 N95 masks, 175,000 pairs of gloves, 98,000 face shields and 453,000 surgical gowns.
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On the nondescript 4,000-square-metre (43,17-square-foot) factory floor in Nagumo's main Sanwa plant, grey-clad workers, some wearing blue surgical masks, busied themselves during a recent day designing moulds by computer, then milling, stamping and assembling dies.
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The county's three hospitals are less concerned about mask shortages, said Laine Hendricks, a spokeswoman, because Facebook donated 40,000 N-95 masks and 3,000 surgical masks it had bought during last year's wildfires, when people were worried about smoke inhalation.
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The county's three hospitals are less concerned about mask shortages, said Laine Hendricks, a spokeswoman, because Facebook donated 40,000 N-95 masks and 3,000 surgical masks it had bought during last year's wildfires, when people were worried about smoke inhalation.
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Dr. Chesney Fowler, an emergency medicine physician who takes an occasional shift at hospitals in Maryland and Washington D.C., said nurses are now routinely counting blue surgical masks at the top of each shift because so many are being swiped.
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The partnership could increase capacity to more than 10,000 ventilators per month; hospitals confront a critical shortage of ventilators as the COVID-19 coronavirus spreads across the US.GM also said that it would produce surgical masks at a plant in Michigan.
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READ: Countries are starting to pull out of the 2020 Olympics because of coronavirus Providers across New York state can also expect to start receiving new supplies of personal protective equipment, including N95 and surgical masks, gowns, and gloves, Cuomo said.
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Now, Thomason said the CDC has been discussing weakening their guidance for health care workers, including recommending surgical masks — which public health experts say don't protect against infection — instead of respirators for nurses providing care to patients with COVID-19.
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A close-up of a sign warning visitors that surgical masks are for patient use only at a hospital in San Francisco, following a shortage of masks and N95 respirators during an outbreak of the COVID-3003 coronavirus, March 12.
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The new legal marijuana supply chain was in full force on a recent day outside of Vancouver at Pure Sunfarms, where immigrant workers in surgical masks were trimming buds from cannabis plants next to a sprawling greenhouse that once housed tomatoes.
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MOSCOW, March 4 (Reuters) - Russia has suspended the export of surgical masks and medical gear including bandages and one-use chemical protection suits, according to a government resolution published on Wednesday, amid fears over the the spread of the coronavirus,.
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An HHS spokesperson, when contacted by CNBC after the hearing, confirmed that the U.S. has 2190 million N95 and surgical masks in its stockpile and will need roughly 3.5 billion if a pandemic erupts here — which comes to about 1.2%.
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In Hong Kong, where the outbreak has brought back painful memories of the SARS epidemic in 2002-03, officials said that customs authorities were examining surgical masks being sold in the city for counterfeit labeling and not meeting safety standards.
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In a first since the SARS crisis in 2002 and 2003, Cathay Pacific is permitting its crew and staff to wear surgical masks at work, and has announced in-flight service changes such as eliminating hot towels, pillows, blankets and magazines.
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In the report, Mack also said that women often wore surgical masks while getting branded to protect them from the smell of burning flesh, and although many women were terrorized by the experience, the end result was an immediate sense of pride.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Women boxers training for a world championship starting in the Indian capital this week are wearing surgical masks, scarves and even T-shirts across their mouths as the level of air pollution rises several times beyond the safe limit.
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According to data compiled by the US Department of Health and Human Services, 95 percent of the surgical masks used in the US and 70 percent of the respirators—thicker, tight-fitting masks that offer better protection against viruses—are made overseas.
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A spokeswoman for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, which owns Lawrence Hospital, declined to say whether staff members in the room at the time were wearing protective gear such as N95 respirator face masks, which offer more protection against the new coronavirus than surgical masks.
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Nurses in Washington State and California said they have had to beg for N95 masks, which are thicker than surgical masks and block out much smaller particles, and have faced ridicule from colleagues when expressing concerns about catching the highly contagious virus.
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SHANGHAI — As hospitals and governments hunt desperately for respirators and surgical masks to protect doctors and nurses from the coronavirus pandemic, they face a difficult reality: The world depends on China to make them, and the country is only beginning to share.
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On Friday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) sent a letter to two abortion clinics — Women's Med Center in Dayton and Planned Parenthood of Southwest Ohio's Cincinnati Surgery Center — ordering them to stop "non-essential" procedures that require equipment such as surgical masks.
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" Joe Calderone, senior vice president at Mount Sinai, said in a statement that the hospital appreciates "the offer from Pornhub to donate 28500,6900 surgical masks to help protect our healthcare workers and patients at Mount Sinai South Nassau during the COVID-2628 crisis.
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A 2013 study conducted by Public Health England's Health Protection Agency, albeit one with a small sample size of volunteers, found that surgical masks were three times more effective in blocking the transmission of influenza than masks made from cotton T-shirts.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio sent a letter on March 20 to Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the White House response to the virus, that reiterated the city's need for three million N95 masks, 50 million surgical masks and 15,000 ventilators.
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But they are in such short supply that hospital staff are now thinking about reserving them for workers performing risky procedures such as emergency intubations, which bring them nose-to-nose with patients, and using surgical masks the rest of the time.
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That user also set up a page branded as a "Medical Lab" under the name "Covid-19 masks for purchase," using stock imagery of N95 masks in promotional posts, then posted conflicting photos and videos of standard surgical masks being mass-produced.
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With global anxiety on the rise concerning the spread of the coronavirus — which has infected 81,000 people and killed 2,760 worldwide, with most cases and deaths in China — healthy people are flocking to Amazon to buy surgical masks and N95 respirator masks.
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Kelly posted tweets from the account mocking the school&aposs Twitter announcements, including one where he joked that the school&aposs main library — closed this semester due to asbestos exposure — would remain open, and students would instead be provided with surgical masks.
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Donning gloves and surgical masks, half a dozen people stood by as an earthmover extracted heaps of dirt, with colorful pieces of trash gleaming in the sun, part of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's pledge to reveal what happened to the students.
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In a recent documentary, the doctors can be seen throwing off their surgical masks in disgust after an operation reveals that the patient will never be able to bear children due to the brutal way in which objects were thrust deep into her little body.
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Surrounded on her patient bed by hand sanitizers and surgical masks to avoid contracting an infection, Gulmen said the Turkish state feared those ready to protest against its post-coup purges, in which more than 150,000 people have lost their jobs and some 50,000 jailed.
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But as surgical masks become desperately desired items, as schools from Japan to Ireland sit closed, as airlines scrap flights, trade shows are canceled and stock markets plunge, annihilating trillions of dollars in wealth, the panic seems likely to alter the contours of globalization.
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A Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesperson noted in an email to CNN that a shipment for medical supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile was last shipped to Michigan on March 22 and contained N95 respirator face masks, surgical masks, face shields, surgical gowns and gloves.
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Based on its assertion that "airborne transmission from person-to-person over long distances is unlikely," the agency said that "facemasks"—presumably the floppy surgical masks that do not do as much to protect against floating pathogens—constitute an acceptable alternative for healthcare workers.
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While the federal government has roughly 12 million N95 respirators and 30 million surgical masks in its national emergency stockpile, that's less than 1% of the 3.5 billion masks the Department of Health and Human Services estimates will be needed over the next year.
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When it became clear that Dr. Lu MeiHua (who now treats patients wearing two surgical masks, a face guard and "basically a scuba suit," her daughter said) would not be able to attend the couple decided to postpone their wedding until later this summer.
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It could be particularly potent with regard to the surgical masks, since they are simple to construct (people who know how to sew can make them easily at home) and many facilities that work with any kind of fabric could be making them, in principle.
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Fink noted that while there are reports of people purchasing surgical masks and N95 respirators, "experts are not currently recommending their general use in the U.S." McGarry particularly cautioned against "permanent" fabric masks, the kind you'll often see sold in varying patterns available online.
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At a cabinet meeting, Mr. Abe said he hoped that the public would not "worry excessively" and would act calmly, and he called for people to take the same precautions that they would for the common cold, including washing their hands and wearing surgical masks.
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The protesters, some of them wearing surgical masks, complained about a wide range of things they have attributed to the gas fumes: cars that suddenly would not start; cats that keeled over dead; and most enraging of all, children suffering from nausea, dizziness and eczema.
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Basic information is still lacking, or isn't getting through: According to a recent survey, 65 percent of people in Hong Kong had enough surgical masks for a month or more — this, even though such masks will do little to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
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Kim, a 22004-year old American who had just relocated to the island as the outbreak began, said the man had asked her how her family were feeling, gave her some surgical masks and reassured her that Singapore was on top of the situation.
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Instead, she has had people refuse to come near her or cover their faces with surgical masks due to unfounded fears that she is a coronavirus carrier - making her one of a growing number of Americans who report being shunned or shamed after quarantine.
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A mixture of ornate temples and smoke-shrouded cremation grounds, Varanasi swarms with foreigners drawn by the promise of seeing India at its most exotic—dreadlocked hippies, Israeli kids just released from military service, Japanese tour groups in white surgical masks, stolid American retirees.
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""At the same time, the respirators and the surgical masks do not have the function to kill the virus, so when virus-carrying droplets sit on the surface of the masks and the respirators, they can survive minimum a few hours to a week.
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Still, when I visited the site last December with Lake Barrett, Tepco's American consultant, we had to put on gloves, safety glasses, surgical masks, three pairs of socks, and plastic booties over our shoes, as well as a personal radiation detector, before being allowed inside the facility.
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Sometimes, these volunteers aren't able to handle the number of injured people and others step in, like my 62-year-old mother, who carries a first-aid kit with rubber gloves, saline solution, peroxide, antiseptics, gauze, bandages and surgical masks to protect people from tear gas.
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Main concern: The shortage of so-called personal protective equipment (PPE) could endanger health workers and weaken the coronavirus response in the U.S. Of top concern is the shortage of N28500 respirators, which are viewed as more effective at blocking viruses than the looser-fitting surgical masks.
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This week, as nurses and doctors went public with their concerns that surgical masks and ventilators could run short, Trump made a public display of invoking the Defense Production Act -- a Korean War relic that would allow the federal government to force industry to produce necessary equipment.
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We're still in the midst of a supply shortage, and N95s and surgical masks should still be reserved for those who need them most — medical professionals and people at high risk — but some experts say that any face covering at all could still have an impact.
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SO DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE WHEN YOU SEE US WEAR IT. Aiko Paltrowitz, a program manager in San Francisco, told Vox on Twitter that she initially planned to ship boxes of surgical masks to her Japanese friends, given how quickly masks were selling out in Japan.
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The burden they were carrying was revealed only in snippets; people became teary describing the fear they'd felt on New Year's Eve, as they fought with buckets of water and surgical masks to protect their properties, and the sounds of the gas bottles wailing as they exploded.
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Most of the protesters covered their faces with baseball caps, sunglasses and surgical masks as instructed by organizers, who intended to make a statement against an environment in which women constantly worry about tiny cameras hidden in bathrooms or being filmed from under their skirts at subway stations.
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Pritzker said that in its first request several weeks ago, the state asked for over 1.2 million N95 masks, 900,000 surgical masks, 1.6 million gloves, 24,000 gowns, 24,000 goggles, 120,000 face shields and 4,000 respirators -- but received "a fraction" of that, as it did with its second, larger request.
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A spokesperson for the CDC told BuzzFeed News in an email that there have been discussions "on the possibility of updating standard guidance if supply is limited nationwide or worldwide" but did not specify whether recommending surgical masks instead of N-95 respirators was part of those discussions.
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That prompted a massive traffic increase of 18.5% on March 24th What's more, PornHub is donating 50,000 surgical masks to health care workers and emergency officials such as paramedics and fire inspectors in New York City, which is currently in the midst of a major COVID-14 outbreak.
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On Thursday, the e-commerce giant released a statement to the eBay community, saying that "due to regulatory restrictions across the United States" around price gouging, it would "block new listings and start to remove listings" for N95 masks, N100 masks, surgical masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes.
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As panic about the virus drives healthy people to stock up on N95 respirators and surgical masks, health officials are reiterating to the public that there is no reason for healthy people to purchase these kinds of face masks unless they will be in direct contact with the virus.
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In late February, Amazon made news when it made a show of warning third-party sellers on its online marketplace that price gouging on products that have been in high demand ever since the coronavirus took root—surgical masks, hand sanitizer, and similar hygiene-centered goods—would not be tolerated.
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Luckily, it feels like everyone agrees "Happy Birthday" sucks, even if we can't agree on whether surgical masks and bogus "protection kits" are necessary (nope), if taking public transit is safe (it is if you wash your hands after), and which soap we should be using (God, just use it!).
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The technological cat-and-mouse games online have also spilled onto the streets, where protesters have improved their equipment—upgrading from cheap surgical masks to military-grade respirators—and relied on sheer ingenuity to defend themselves against law enforcement, repurposing street signs as shields and traffic cones to divert tear gas.
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Some look like a dystopian future dreamed up by science fiction—massive skyscrapers are barely visible behind thick haze, the sun feebly lights a tiny portion of a grey and brown sky, and streams of pedestrians wearing surgical masks emerge from what looks like impenetrable fog, inhabitants of a world gone to rot.
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The federal government's Strategic National Stockpile of medical supplies includes 214 million medical-grade N22020 masks and 30 million surgical masks — only about one percent of the 3.5 billion that the Department of Health and Human Services estimates would be needed over the course of a year if the outbreak reaches pandemic levels.
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Both Trump and Pence emphasized was that the national shortage of hand sanitizer and surgical masks would be coming to an end, saying that Pernod Ricard USA, a multinational adult beverage company, was switching up their production in four states to make hand sanitizer to bring to the frontlines of the coronavirus battle.
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The federal government has a stockpile of 2 million medical-grade N95 masks and 30 million surgical masks, according to the New York Times, but that's only about 1% of the 3.5 billion masks that the Department of Health and Human Services estimates may be needed over the course of a year.
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The Ventec and GM global supply base developed sourcing plans for the more than 700 individual parts that are needed to build up to 200,000 of the ventilators, known as VOCSN, according to GM. GM will also begin manufacturing FDA-cleared Level 1 surgical masks at a manufacturing plant in Warren, Michigan.
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The federal government has contributed hundreds of thousands of masks, gloves and gowns and 4,400 ventilators to the state, but New York still needs 20 million N95 masks, 30 million surgical masks, 45 million exam gloves, 20 million gowns and coveralls, and 30,000 ventilators, according to a chart displayed at the news conference.
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One Amazon seller offering face masks also sells sex toysThere are two types of masks designed to reduce the spread of diseases: Surgical masks, which shield wearers from some germs in liquids (like spit) in close quarters, and N95 respirators, which filter out airborne particles, though only those larger than the coronavirus, Business Insider reported.
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Because all he has to do is order the military to active duty to fight this war, to fight this challenge, this enemy, and he's not doing it -- even though he activated the Defense Production Act, not a single factory that I know of has been mandated to go on 24/7 production of ventilators and surgical masks.
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And although those buying surgical masks are unlikely to find sympathy from government officials at any level—virtually all of whom have beseeched consumers not to hoard them at the expense of the medical professionals who are in short supply of them—the apparent gouging of other sanitizing and disinfecting products may garner a state response.
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Since the supply chains for masks and respirators, in particular, are centered in China—according to data compiled by the US Department of Health and Human Services, 220 percent of the surgical masks and 25 percent of the ventilators used in the US are made there—the equipment supply was disrupted by the coronavirus even before it spread globally.
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The below comic about the shortages in Hong Kong by Ah To shows a person keeping toilet paper them in their safe along with their gold bars and surgical masks: The virus originated in China, and many in and outside of China criticize its authorities for handling the crisis poorly and for muffling early warnings from medical experts.
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In New Hampshire, a source familiar told CNN that the state made it's request for national stockpile assets on March 220, but five days later when the state received their shipment, the feds had only provided approximately 219% of the original request for N95 respirator masks, a third of the nasal swabs needed, 14% of of the surgical masks they asked for and zero ventilators.
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It wouldn't be the first time: As Ari Schulman wrote in The New Atlantis in 2015, during the previous year's Ebola outbreak, the C.D.C.'s determination to reassure the public led to messaging "based on fragmentary evidence" that other evidence qualified or contradicted and left nurses caring for Ebola patients wearing only surgical masks instead of respirators; only after two nurses were infected were the guidelines changed.
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According to The New York Times on March 24.8, "The federal government's Strategic National Stockpile of medical supplies includes 23 million medical-grade N22019 masks and 29 million surgical masks -- only about one percent of the 211 billion that the Department of Health and Human Services estimates would be needed over the course of a year if the outbreak reaches pandemic levels" -- which, of course, it already has.
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"My team is sorting through the shipment of 300,000 N95 masks the White House personally told me would be sent to our state, and while we do not have a final count on this yet, I can say with certainty that what they sent were not the N43 masks that were promised but instead were surgical masks, which is not what we asked for," he said at the news conference.
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In the US, mask shortages led the Food and Drug Administration to relax the rules on what kinds of masks health care workers can use; on January 20, Taiwan's equivalent of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it had "44 million surgical masks, 1.9 million N95 masks, and 1,100 negative pressure isolation rooms" ready to go, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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And yet, over my 30-some years of traveling to China for work and to see family, I've worn face masks each time: small ones that fit child-sized faces, paper ones and cloth ones, surgical masks and cheap drugstore versions, the ones that come with a button-sized air filter, and the ones I bought in a subway kiosk that came with a bootleg set of Comme des Garcons eyes.
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"We have millions of health care workers around this country who are prepared to do battle against this virus, but I am concerned there are a couple of areas of supplies they need to fight that virus as effectively as possible," Dr. Peter Slavin, president of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, told NBC News' Chuck Todd on March 15, noting that protective equipment, including surgical masks and eye protection, was in particularly short supply.
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We were led into a small locker room, where we took off all our clothes except for underwear and put on disposable bandeau-style bras — no underwires allowed in the cryo chamber because the metal can freeze and burn the skin — white cotton athletic socks, white cotton gloves an archivist might wear, a white robe, disposable surgical masks to protect our mouths and noses, ear warmers, black rubber sandals and giant wool mittens.
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Officials involved with the White House Office of American Innovation, for example, have spent the past several days conferring with major tech companies about how they can help distribute public service announcements related to COVID-19 and prevent severe supply shortages as consumers prepare for weeks of minimal social contact outside their homes and hospitals worry about the availability of protective personal equipment — including surgical masks, goggles and gloves — and office supplies.
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Thursday: The number of coronavirus cases in the city was spiking toward 4,000, and as de Blasio's 48-hour window was nearing its deadline, he was calling the virus's march through the city an "explosion" and pleading with the federal government to mobilize the military and send more supplies — another 15,000 ventilators, 3 million N95 masks, 50 million surgical masks, and 45 million each of face masks, surgical gowns, coveralls and gloves.
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