Personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers, including face shields, surgical masks, and N95 respirator masks, is in critically short supply. To mitigate the ongoing crisis, some ...

Productive Plastics Inc. is making shields for personal protective equipment to limit the spread of COVID-19. Officials with the Mount Laurel, N.J., thermoformer said in a news release that the ...

MIT's new face-shield design could help hospitals with PPE shortages The new type of shield is foldable, so it can be stacked in mass quantities and shipped in boxes by the thousands.

This personal protective equipment comes gold studs and costs nearly $1,000. Louis Vuitton plans to sell a face shield with its signature LV pattern.

Face shields added protection from aerosolized particles but researchers said they may need to be paired with other PPE to completely eliminate risk of transmission and infection. Image: Adobe Stock.

Since March, Dimo’s has been making face shields at its Wicker Park shop, selling them online and donating them to hospitals, nursing homes and others in need of PPE.

Plastic face shields are not very effective at protecting others, they found; they may protect a wearer against droplets from others, but not the other way around.