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Guess what’s happening with Canadian wildfire smoke now covering a lot of the Eastern U.S., triggering bad air-quality warnings. Many more people are wearing N95 face masks again. After all, such ...

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Amazon is giving consumers a high-quality alternative to the particulate respirator type N95. It is recommended to be reserved for medical workers. With that, the e-commerce company just released a ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Toby Lewsadder stepped outside an Ace Hardware store wearing a simple one-strap dust mask. He knew it wasn’t the right defense against the wildfire smoke lingering in the air, but ...

UC Davis research shows that face coverings are highly effective in blocking expired airborne particles that could transmit viruses, even if the masks do not seal around the face. Masked students at ...

(KPIX 5) -- People have been lining up at hardware stores and other locations in the Bay Area to snap up face masks to minimize their intake of unhealthy air. But the N95 respirators, so called ...

The wildfires currently raging across the state of California are producing vast amounts of smoke, significantly affecting air quality in many areas. The situation is so bad in some locales that ...