ST. PAUL — Calling all Minnesotans with any sort of sewing skills. Now is the chance to make a difference. According to Joe Kelly, director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management with the ...

Prominent public health officials have increasingly highlighted the limitations of cloth face masks, pushing for more effective respirator masks such as N95s as omicron engulfs the United States, a ...

We appreciate the generosity of so many in our community who are looking for ways to support the COVID-19 response. In particular, many have offered to donate homemade cloth masks to local hospitals ...

To sew your own mask you'll need: two 10”x6” rectangles of cotton fabric, two 6” pieces of elastic (or rubber bands, string, cloth strips, or hair ties), needle and thread (or bobby pin), and scissors ...

On Thursday of this week — for the first time since the pandemic began — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clarified that surgical masks and KN95 masks provide more protection that ...