N95 masks

Low vaccination rates among young children are a big reason for kids to keep masking up, especially indoors.

How often you can safely wear an N95 or KN95 mask will depend on how it’s used. Here’s what you need to know and how to get a free one now.

Free N95 masks are now available at South Florida pharmacies and grocery stores. NBC 6’s Hilary Lane reports

Pharmacies and health centers around the country have begun distributing the first of the 400 million N95 masks the White House is sending out to combat the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19.

The surge of the omicron variant of COVID-19 created more interest in filtered masks – so here’s what you need to know.

The Biden administration will make 400 million N95 masks from the Strategic National Stockpile available for free to Americans starting next week

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask guidance, saying that N95 masks offer the highest protection.

The CDC on Friday updated its guidance on masks for the general public, now saying that people “may choose” to wear N95 and KN95 masks because they offer the best protection against COVID-19.

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that the Department of Homeland Security has seized over 11 million counterfeit N95 masks in its ongoing fight to protect frontline health care workers

They’re hard to find, in demand and yet 30 million of N95 masks are sitting in a Miami Lakes warehouse just waiting to be bought.

A stockpile of 30 million N95 masks are sitting in a Miami Lakes warehouse.

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…

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.

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.

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.