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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the mask and respirator market rapidly grew, along with counterfeit respirators. [1] NIOSH, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, filed a trademark application on June 17, 2020, for various 42 CFR 84 trademarks, including the N95, allowing NIOSH to enforce rules on counterfeit masks outside of rules defined in 42 CFR 84.
In April 2020, the company announced that it would manufacture face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [15] Due to rising demand for protective gear in response to COVID-19, Top Glove's profits had risen by 400% by mid-December 2020, with the company announcing a 20-times increase in quarterly net profit to RM 2.4 billion (US$590 million). [16]
A public service announcement from the Government of California encouraging people to wear masks to "slow the spread". In late March 2020, some government officials began to focus on the wearing of masks to help prevent transmission of COVID-19 as opposed to protecting the wearer; former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb stated in a report that face masks would be "most effective" at slowing its ...
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The $173 billion California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is suing ratings agencies because they gave AAA ratings to Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs) in which CalPERS parked $1 ...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has given Elon Musk until Monday to respond to an offer to resolve a probe into the billionaire's $44-billion takeover of Twitter in 2022, a source ...
Elastomeric masks must be individually fit-tested and inspected for full efficacy. [2] They may be somewhat easier to fit than filtering facepiece respirators. Older mask designs were designed only to fit young adult men of average weight and a narrow range of ethnicities; newer ones use updated anthropometry and fit more people. [5]
The mask shortage has been called a "scandal d'État" (State scandal). [198] Thousands of French individuals and companies teamed up during the outbreak to form a decentralized network of Fab labs and ad-hoc retooled production facilities, producing more than a million face shields, masks and other kinds of PPE during the height of the pandemic ...