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Face masks make sex safer in the time of Covid-19, New York City Health Department advises
Social Distancing

Face masks make sex safer in the time of Covid-19, New York City Health Department advises

(CNN)The New York City Health Department is encouraging people to “be creative” in its updated guidelines to help people have safer sex during the Covid-19 pandemic.While the department still urges people to stay home as much as possible and minimize contact with others, the guidance says that during the pandemic people “will and should have…

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020 No Comments
Call for clear face masks to be the norm
PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

Call for clear face masks to be the norm

Kelly Morellon (right) and her mother Sylvie have designed a face mask with a transparent window It’s now part of daily life for many of us – struggling to work out what someone in a supermarket or at work is saying when they’re wearing a face mask. But for people who are deaf…

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Tuesday, May 26, 2020 No Comments
Artist adds Queen in face mask to collection
Quarantine Art

Artist adds Queen in face mask to collection

Emelie Hryhoruk says her portrait of the Queen “highlights vulnerabilities alongside powerful traits” An artist who started making colourful, pop-art inspired works to deal with post-natal depression has added a painting of the Queen wearing a face mask to her series during lockdown.Emelie Hryhoruk said the picture, called We…

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Tuesday, May 26, 2020 No Comments
Amazon engineers develop face shields for frontline workers
Business

Amazon engineers develop face shields for frontline workers

A team of Amazon engineers from its drone delivery unit worked with a group of 3D printing volunteers to develop reusable face shields for frontline workers, the company announced in a blog post Thursday. Amazon Prime Air’s mechanical design and hardware teams adapted the design for the shields from the Washington State 3D Face Shield…

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Sunday, May 24, 2020 No Comments
Monstrously fun knit masks encourage social distancing
Social Distancing

Monstrously fun knit masks encourage social distancing

By Rachel Kraus2020-05-03 21:18:23 UTC Face mask style is a thing, and one Reykjavík designer has seriously upped the ante. The artist Ýrúrarí is a textile designer who works mostly with knitting. She says that “adding knitted 3D elements to second hand sweaters has been the theme of my work for the past years.” She…

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Wednesday, May 20, 2020 No Comments
Coronavirus: Trump to defy ‘voluntary’ advice for Americans to wear masks
Politics

Coronavirus: Trump to defy ‘voluntary’ advice for Americans to wear masks

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTrump doesn’t see face mask necessary behind ‘the great Resolute desk’ US President Donald Trump has said he will not wear a face mask despite new medical guidance advising Americans to do so.He could not see himself greeting “presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens” in the Oval…

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 No Comments
Frontline heroes New export restrictions to block medical masks, gloves from leaving U.S.
PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

New export restrictions to block medical masks, gloves from leaving U.S.

Customs agents will hold shipments pending further instruction from FEMA. April 10, 2020, 10:18 PM4 min read The U.S. will begin preventing shipments of protective medical supplies from leaving the country starting Friday as doctors, nurses and other health care professionals working stateside continue to lack the gear they need to shield themselves while battling…

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Friday, April 10, 2020 No Comments