NIOSH approves many types of filtering respirators. The most accessible are N95 respirator, but other types (N99, N100, P95, P99, P100, R95, R99 and R100) provide the same or better protection as an N95 respirator. Lists of NIOSH-approved respirators can be found on the NIOSH-approved … Read More

When it comes to messaging, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky see the point of her critics. “I think what I have not conveyed is the uncertainty in many of these situations,” she said. Wall Street Journal in an interview published Sunday, admitting that she should have … Read More

EAGAN, Minn. (WCCO) – While COVID-19 cases are rising in Minnesota and across the country, doctors are urging people to defend themselves with what works: masks to stop the spread and tests to know when you are sick. But both can be difficult to get … Read More

Disability advocates demanded a public apology from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky, after calling the “encouraging news” that the majority of COVID-19 deaths among those vaccinated were of people with pre-existing medical conditions – or “who were sick to begin … Read More

By Katherine Dillinger and John Bonifield, CNN (CNN) – US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask information to the American public on Friday, including clarifying that certain types of masks and respirators offer more protection against coronavirus than others, and to provide … Read More

The CDC’s messages about the COVID-19 omicron variant have been a disaster, and with increasing cases and despair on the rise, Katelyn Jetelina coming by Inside the hive to give a clear picture of what we should know about the virus right now. The epidemiologist, … Read More

Omicron poses a “significantly reduced risk” of serious illness compared to Delta – and is more than 90 percent less likely to kill those infected, according to a federally funded study. The study, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday, … Read More

ATLANTA – Emphasizing that the effort represented the best chance to ensure that Americans make responsible choices about the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that it planned to send each U.S. household a booklet on probability thinking and decision-making. “What … Read More

Reptile owners: beware. Contact with bearded kites has been linked to a recent outbreak of salmonella, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. A recent CDC study reported that between December 24, 2020 and December 2, 2021, 44 people in 25 states became infected … Read More

NEW YORK (WABC) – Researchers are seeing signs that COVID-19’s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in the UK and is doing the same in the US, at which point cases may begin to drop dramatically. The reason: The variant has proven so wildly contagious … Read More