Face covering Resources |
How to Wear a Cloth Face Covering From the Centers for Disease Control: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html
Cloth face coverings should—
Information on Respiratory Protection and Personal Protective Equipement (PPE)
Face coverings are NOT necessarily respiratory protection. Face covers are designed to protect others. However face coverings can provide some respiratory protection. To learn more about respiratory protection, to help individuals develop and wear face coverings that better provide respiratory protection and to learn how to use the best repiratory protection procedures see: https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/respiratoryprotection/
Information from the CDC on using PPE https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/using-ppe.html?deliveryName=USCDC_425-DM2674
Instructions for a Variety of Face Covers:
How to make a Face Mask ftom Deaconess Health Care system https://www.deaconess.com/How-to-make-a-Face-Mask
This page has 3 designs (one requiring sewing, one requiring only a scissor and fabric: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/diy-cloth-face-coverings.html
Surgeon General, Dr. Jerome Adams, shares ways to create your own face covering in a few easy steps on the on the CDC YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx1yqvJgf4
A t-shirt, scissor and ruler version published in 2006 with a measurable degree of protection: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/6/05-1468_article , This design has a diagram https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/6/05-1468-f1, a recent CDC EID Podcast: https://tools.cdc.gov/medialibrary/index.aspx#/media/id/405814, a Youtube by Mailman School of Public Health https://youtu.be/3BadTIcfKKQ and additional directions form the Mailman School of Public Health https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/t-shirts-and-scissors-make-diy-evidence-based-protective-mask.
How to make a facemask with just a t-shirt (and be able wear the t-shirt after COVID-19 is over) https://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-3-easy-steps-fold-a-t-shirt-into-a-face-mask-in-30-seconds-no-elastic-required-2020-04-23
Adding A Nylon Stocking Layer Could Boost Protection From Cloth Masks, Study Finds https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/22/840146830/adding-a-nylon-stocking-layer-could-boost-protection-from-cloth-masks-study-find