NIH required immunocompromised woman to remove her N95, highlighting CDC's conflicting mask guidance

The changing recommendations and inconsistent guidance leave patients — and occasionally medical facilities — confounded over how best to keep the virus from spreading. | John Moore/Getty Images

Health care facilities around the country are juggling conflicting recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about N95 masks more than two years into the pandemic.

The confusion is so widespread that the industry’s preeminent trade association said it isn’t sure what to advise hospitals. America’s hospital regulator is seeking patients’ complaints related to unsafe masking. And despite scientific consensus, including from the CDC, that N95s provide some of the best defense against Covid-19, some

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