Researchers with Wake Forest School of Medicine are collaborating on an effort to develop a reusable and more comfortable face mask for health care workers.
The testing of the potential personal protection equipment (PPE) product comes as the arrival of several global COVID-19 variants into North Carolina and the United States has drawn concerns in terms of new community exposures.
Just as worrisome: How do the variants affect the disposable masks worn by health care workers?
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of thousands of medical providers in the U.S. alone, most who were exposed and infected as they treated infected patients.
and you don t get that easily. c-span: you said the magic two words: robert capa. guest: right. c-span: who was he? guest: robert capa was perhaps the most famous war photographer of all time. many people have now seen a new movie called saving private ryan, which is based on the landing on omaha beach on d-day, june 6th, 1944. and i was the editor of bob capa s pictures of the real thing. he was my colleague at life magazine. c-span: it wasn t his real name. guest: no, his real name was andre friedmann. he was born in in budapest, and took the name capa because it was short and good in almost any language. c-span: i want to come back to robert capa in a moment, but john morris lived in how many places in the world? guest: well, there s six cities in my life. i grew up in chicago. i ve worked mostly in new york, but i spent a year in los angeles. i ve worked in washington for several years. and during the war, i lived and worked in london. and now i live in paris. c