Picking out your New Year’s Eve outfit? Consider upgrading your face mask while you’re at it. Public health experts are warning that the single-layer cloth masks that have become popular during the ...

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, science has learned quite a lot about the novel coronavirus -- including how to stop its spread. You know the drill: social distancing, frequent hand-washing and, ...

(CNN Newsource) — Home-made cloth face masks likely need a minimum of two layers, and preferably three, to prevent the dispersal of viral droplets from the nose and mouth that are associated with the ...

Catherine Clase is a member of the Cloth Mask Knowledge Exchange, a research and knowledge translation group which includes industry stakeholders. Industry stakeholders contribute to the Cloth Mask ...

Research shows that high-momentum, large-sized surrogate cough droplets can penetrate single- or double-layer surgical masks to a significant extent 1. The penetrated droplets can then break into ...

The droplet impacting on the mask surface is recorded at 20,000 frames per second. These time sequence images of droplet impingement on a single-, double-, and triple-layer masks show the total number ...

Researchers have shown that three-layered surgical masks are more effective than single or double-layered masks at stopping large droplets from a cough or sneeze from penetrating through the mask. If ...

Well over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, science has learned quite a lot about the novel coronavirus — including how to stop its spread. You know the drill: social distancing, frequent ...