Aboard the Diamond Princess, a Case Study in Aerosol Transmission
In a year of endless viral outbreaks, the details of the Diamond Princess tragedy seem like ancient history. On Jan. 20, one infected passenger boarded...
Tag : Protective Clothing and Gear
Masks for All
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont introduced legislation this week that directs the Trump administration to send three “high-quality, reusable” masks to every person in the...
Does Wearing A Mask Protect Me? Growing Evidence Says Yes
Researchers have long known that masks can prevent people from spreading airway germs to others — findings that have driven much of the conversation around...
‘You Do the Right Things, and Still You Get It’
HOUSTON — Elaine Roberts, a longtime bagger at a supermarket, tried to be so careful. She put on gloves and stopped riding the bus to...
Your Used Mask Needs to Make It to the Trash Can
Helen Lowman looks at litter a lot. It’s her job. But while walking her dog in Westport, Conn., in March, she noticed an alarming trend....
FEMA Sends Faulty Protective Gear to Nursing Homes Battling Virus
Expired surgical masks. Isolation gowns that resemble oversize trash bags. Extra-small gloves that are all but useless for the typical health worker’s hands. Nursing home...
New Orleans’s Striking Sanitation Workers Still Fight for Dignity
“All labor has dignity,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told striking sanitation workers in Memphis more than 50 years ago. “One day,” he...
Europe Said It Was Pandemic-Ready. Pride Was Its Downfall.
The coronavirus exposed European countries’ misplaced confidence in faulty models, bureaucratic busywork and their own wealth. By David D. Kirkpatrick, Matt Apuzzo and Selam Gebrekidan...
Voices From Travel’s Front Lines: ‘We Walk in Fear, We Work in Fear’
Over the past six weeks, countries across the globe have gradually begun to reopen to travelers, both domestic and foreign. But the travel world, still...
Mask Rules Expand Across U.S. as Clashes Over the Mandates Intensify
As images of people wearing surgical masks flashed across the screen, Morgan Freeman’s deep, soothing voice delivered a message to America: “When you wear a...