Editing Respirator (section)

==== 2020 ====
China normally makes 10 million masks<!-- or [[dust mask]]s or [[surgical mask]]s--> per day, about half of the world production. During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], 2,500 factories were converted <!--BYD, CIAG, Foxconn etc.--> to produce 116 million daily<!--still too few-->.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/science-health_coronavirus-outbreak_world-depends-china-face-masks-can-country-deliver/6186071.html|title=World Depends on China for Face Masks But Can Country Deliver?|last1=Xie|first1=John|date=19 March 2020|website=Voice of America|publisher=[[Voice of America]]|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321094219/https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/world-depends-china-face-masks-can-country-deliver|archive-date=21 March 2020}}</ref>

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people in the United States, and in a lot of countries in the world, were urged to make their own cloth masks due to the widespread shortage of commercial masks.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dwyer |first=Colin |date=April 3, 2020 |title=CDC Now Recommends Americans Consider Wearing Cloth Face Coverings In Public |website=[[NPR]] |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/03/826219824/president-trump-says-cdc-now-recommends-americans-wear-cloth-masks-in-public}}</ref>