January 28, 2021 The call for the federal government to make sure high-filtration masks are available for all essential workers and the general public is growing. Joseph Allen, an associate professor and the director of the Healthy Buildings program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, penned an op-ed for The Washington Post on Tuesday, laying out the case for why “everyone” should be wearing an N95 mask at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic. Allen isn’t the only local public health expert pushing for “better masks” as the pandemic continues. His colleagues at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Abraar Karan and Dr. Ranu Dhillon, are pressing for a national initiative that would distribute high-filtration masks, such as N95s, to every household in the United States.