Can you reuse disposable face masks? The do’s and don’ts, according to doctors

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Prevention

The 10 Best Disposable Face Masks to Help Protect Against COVID-19 and the Omicron Variant

As the pandemic continues to evolve and new COVID-19 variants surface—the latest being Omicron—protection remains top of mind. And while many of us have acquired a pile of reusable cloth masks over ...
MarketWatch

How to make your N95 mask last longer — and how to recycle it

President Joe Biden’s plan to distribute 400 million free N95 masks rolled out Tuesday. Though the disposable N95s are better at preventing transmission of COVID-19 than single-layer cloth masks, they ...
Government Technology

Do disposable face masks make good batteries?

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has a new disposable waste problem: face masks. In just the first few months of the pandemic, an estimated 129 billion disposable face masks were used each ...