N95 masks

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of N95 respirator masks presented a dire situation for the healthcare and frontline workers who needed them most. Essential workers who relied on N95 masks had no choice but to wear what were meant to be disposable N95 masks for weeks at a time. Some started disinfecting the masks to be...

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again

A Georgia man has been charged in federal court with trying to swindle a foreign government out of $317 million in exchange for a huge shipment of masks to protect against the coronavirus that didn’t really exist.

U.S. Immunologist Dr. Rick Bright discusses his attempts to get the Trump administration to secure more N95.

Health care workers across South Florida are putting their lives on the line during the coronavirus pandemic. But, one of the largest hospital systems is now restricting the use of N95 masks for those treating patients with the virus. According to the HCA, there are new protocols for the use of protective equipment. N95 masks will only be used for…

Health care workers across South Florida are putting their lives on the line during the coronavirus pandemic. But, one of the largest hospital systems is now restricting the use of N95 masks for those treating patients with the virus.

Subtitle: A union representing health care workers at the hospital chain HCA sent a cease and desist letter to the company claiming it’s putting workers at risk.

One of the largest producers of all-important N95 masks, 3M, filed suit against an Orlando-based company, claiming the company posed as 3M distributors trying to make a 500% profit from the National Strategic Stockpile.

One of the largest producers of all-important N95 masks, 3M, filed suit against an Orlando-based company, claiming the company posed as 3M distributors trying to make a 500% profit. NBC 6’s Phil Prazan reports.

A major California labor union that claimed to have discovered a stockpile of 39 million masks for health care workers fighting the coronavirus was duped in an elaborate scam uncovered by FBI investigators, according to a newspaper report Sunday. Investigators stumbled onto the scheme while looking into whether they could intercept the masks for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Director of the state’s Division of Emergency Management are becoming more openly critical of 3M, a Minnesota-based company producing N95 masks, an all-important supply for doctors and nurses caring for COVID-19 patients.

NBC 6’s Phil Prazen reports on medical supplies, such as face masks, being sold to states and how the price is increasing exponentially.