Face masks

Environmentalists concerned about pollution created by disposable masks

By Beth Adams • Apr 23, 2021
Max Schulte / WXXI News

This Earth Day, environmentalists called attention to the pollution caused by disposable face masks.

Hochul, experts at UB Jacobs School of Medicine state case for masks, continued caution

By • Jun 29, 2020
Michael Mroziak, WBFO

As the five counties of Western New York enter Phase Four of reopening Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul was again urging the public to keep respecting practices including wearing masks and maintaining physical distancing in order to prevent a new rise in COVID cases. On Monday, she was joined by experts from the Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo who also called for continued caution.

Cuomo issues ‘no mask, no service’ order for NY businesses

By • May 28, 2020
Darren McGee / Office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order that allows businesses to deny entry to customers who aren’t wearing a mask, saying it’s intended to improve public health and reduce fights.

 

 


Cornell leading statewide effort to provide protective face masks for inmates

By • May 14, 2020
Dave Burbank

The director of Cornell University’s prison education program is leading a campaign to provide more face masks to inmates across New York state.

VIDEO: Amherst mosque distributing homemade face masks

By Rich Kellman • Apr 27, 2020
WBFO Photo/Rich Kellman

Volunteers from Amherst Helping Hands are handing out homemade face masks at the Islamic Society of Niagara Frontier 's Masjid An-Noor mosque at 745 Heim Road in Getzville.

New state mandate to wear masks in public puts new burden on supply

By • Apr 17, 2020
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Niagara County is not only battling COVID-19, it is battling to keep up with rule changes that come down from the state.

Not Enough Face Masks Are Made In America To Deal With Coronavirus

By • Mar 5, 2020

Mike Bowen's been a very busy man.

He's executive vice president of Texas-based Prestige Ameritech, one of the few manufacturers of respirators and surgical face masks still making them in the United States.

"I've got requests for maybe a billion and a half masks, if you add it up," he says. That's right — 1.5 billion.

Since the coronavirus started spreading in January, Bowen says he's gotten at least 100 calls and emails a day.

"Normally, I don't get any," he says.