DIY Face Masks for Coronavirus

DIY Fabric Face Masks

I wrote about making fabric masks in the age of Corona on my personal blog tracking 

my creative life.  This is where the separate streams of my personal and work lives collided.

The post includes links to research, patterns, and tutorials for making fabric masks, and 

my commentary after making some of the masks.

The thinking has evolved on this whole movement from just a month ago 

when I started researching this topic from "last resort for health care workers" with

armies of safe-at-home sewers making fabric masks for health care workers experiencing 

shortages in PPE because "it's better than nothing" to the CDC's recent recommendation 

that masks be worn by everyone in public places.

Coronavirus FAQs: Is a Handmade Mask Effective? And What's the Best Way to Wear One? - NPR

• This article traces the change in public policy.
• It also addresses the question of how to keep them clean, and how often.
• Regular laundry will do, but "Think of a mask as like underwear. 
• It needs to be washed after every use."

Should Everyone Wear a Mask in Public? Maybe--But it's Complicated - Forbes

• Very well-researched article from a public health standpoint.
• Acknowledges that science and circumstances change as we move ahead through the Pandemic.
• Asks some good questions that are still unanswered
• And links to additional articles and studies.