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Face Coverings, COVID-19 and Tear Gas

In recent days, N95 and KN95 masks have been in high demand — for more reasons than the COVID-19 pandemic. The respirators have become hot commodities at protests around the U.S. to help keep tear gas from protestors’ lungs.

Richard Watkins, M.D., a Northeast Ohio Medical University associate professor of internal medicine who specializes in infectious disease, stands with the CDC in encouraging Yahoo!Life readers to wear cloth face coverings and reserve the N95 masks for health care workers.

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