The world’s largest rubber glove manufacturer said this week that orders would be delayed by a week and that some of its factories would close after thousands of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. “To minimize the impact on our customers, we are allocating sales orders to the affected factories …
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Editor’s Note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. N95 masks that are well past their expiration date or have been used and re-sterilized are acceptable alternatives to standard new disposable N95 masks, new research indicates. But some masks start with better felt effectiveness than …
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Editor’s Note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance at Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Here are the stories of coronavirus that Medscape editors around the world think you need to know about today: Fax Challenge Files More than 32,000 people volunteered to participate in challenge studies for COVID-19 vaccines, which …
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