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Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent and ongoing laboratory tests and may fall short of safety standards, leaving health care workers with a greater risk of infection than advertised. A peer-reviewed academic study, published to little notice amid the coronavirus pandemic,

Visibly filmsy "isolation" gowns, OK'd by the CDC for Covid and other infectious disease care, have been found by a new study to be unsafe.

Disposable gowns designed to deflect the splatter of bodily fluids, used in thousands of U.S. hospitals, have underperformed in recent and ongoing laboratory tests and may fall short of safety standards, leaving health care workers with a greater risk of infection than advertised.

Isolation gowns are supposed to protect health care workers from splattered bodily fluids. But new studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.

Isolation gowns are supposed to protect healthcare workers from splattered bodily fluids. New studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.

New studies suggest that too much liquid seeps through some disposable gowns, creating a risk of infection.

Widely used gowns, intended to protect people, can let too much liquid seep through, new studies suggest

University of Kentucky students in the Textile Testing Laboratory are helping develop durable, reusable personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care work

Students in UK's Textile Testing Laboratory are helping develop durable, reusable PPE for health care workers. UK’s primary PPE testing involves apparel such as isolation and medical gowns. Thanks to the testing lab, health care workers can use at least five different types of gowns for up to 75 wash cycles.