DesignWorld executive editor Lisa Eitel sewed DIY masks from directions on a YouTube video.
These masks use a PM2.5 filter insert rather than fabric as the filtering medium.
It looks as though the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may end up strongly suggesting that Americans cover their faces in public until the coronavirus pandemic plays out. The Washington Post reports the recommendations now being floated would call for the use of cloth coverings instead of hard-to-find surgical and N95 masks.
This great masking of the masses will most likely result in a mushrooming cottage industry for home-made masks fashioned out of non-traditional materials. Of course, some materials make better masks than others. Here’s what’s actually known.
