EditorialA custom Plexiglas booth with a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter offers protection for witnesses in a courtroom at Federal District Court in lower Manhattan on March 31, 2021. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialJay Vitale, center, shows lifeguards Mark Dobin, left, and Luke Remail a retrofitted resuscitation kit that now includes a HEPA filter in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., May 14, 2020. (John Taggart/The New York Times)