Paper towels, coffee filters, cloth and other materials can be used for homemade coronavirus face masks during the pandemic. But which are most effective? A study of homemade face masks by ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A local vacuum store chain is just one of the (unlikely) places you'll find materials to make your own mask to protect yourself from the spread of coronavirus. Many people are getting ...

WILLMAR — A small army of volunteers is expected to have 2,200 face masks ready to give to area medical facilities this week, made with HEPA filter vacuum cleaner bags. The effort, organized by Trevor ...

My husband has been making weekly grocery runs to buy food for our family. Until now, the only precaution he has taken has been to bring plenty of disinfectant wipes and hand sanitizer to clean the ...

Controversy has erupted over whether it’s safe to construct a homemade mask out of a vacuum bag to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. The Oregonian/OregonLive was among the media that reported ...

Wearing a cloth face mask has become a standard part of life when leaving the house amid the coronavirus pandemic. Face masks, which you can make from materials around the house, are meant to protect ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Before coronavirus, many of us only saw face ...

WILLMAR, Minn. — By now we can all agree that COVID-19 sucks. The owner of AB Vacuum Center in Willmar concurs. “It's a tough deal for everybody,” Trevor Hanson says. Hanson leaned in upon hearing of ...

Two studies looked at which materials are best for homemade masks. What makes a better face covering to guard against COVID-19 transmission, a T-shirt or a scarf? Is it safe to use a vacuum cleaner ...

In the early 1900s, a housewife named Melitta Bentz changed history when she transformed a piece of paper from her son's notebook into the world's first disposable coffee filter. Today, the Melitta ...