Where To Find An N95 Mask In Windsor: Town Distribution Sites

WINDSOR, CT — Health officials are now recommending the use of N95 masks to prevent COVID-19 from spreading — and the town of Windsor has an "ample supply" of them available to residents.

Officials are distributing them at several sites around town, with a limit of 10 per household. N95 masks can be found at:

Main Library, 323 Broad St.

• Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
• Friday-Saturday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
• Sunday: 2-5 p.m.

L.P. Wilson Community Center, 599 Matianuck Ave.

• Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-9 p.m.
• Saturday-Sunday: 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Wilson Branch Library, 365 Windsor Ave.

• Monday: 10 a.m.-7:30 p.m.
• Tuesday-Friday: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
• Saturday: 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
• Sunday: Closed

330 Windsor Avenue Community Center, 330 Windsor Ave.

• Monday-Wednesday: 6-9 p.m.
• Thursday-Friday: 6-9:30 p.m.
• Saturday-Sunday: Closed

Town Hall, 275 Broad St.

• Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Stanford infectious diseases Dr. Abraar Karan told New York Magazine last month that N95 and KN95 masks offer stronger protection against the spread of COVID-19 because the materials used to make them are better equipped to filter out the virus.

"Transmission of the coronavirus is primarily through aerosols, which float around in the air — you inhale them — and are not filtered well by cloth masks," Karan told the magazine. "You really need melt-blown polypropylene, which you find in surgical masks and N95s, to stop these small particles."